'Kashmir militant confesses to Delhi bombing’

"The army has picked up Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone of Banihal area in Doda district of Kashmir, who has confessed that he was involved in the Paharganj bomb blast in New Delhi," said Colonel D.K. Badola, spokesman for the Indian army in Jammu.

Paharganj was one of two markets that were hit by blasts on October 29, days ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. Another blast occurred on a bus.

Badola said Lone had been handed over to police in Jammu, winter capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.

A military intelligence source told AFP that Lone had said he was paid 23,000 rupees (500 dollars) by a commander of the pan-Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.