Srinagar, June 30 -- A day after his arrest, top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Nadeem Abrar and a Pakistani militant were killed in an encounter in Parimpora area of the city, police said on Tuesday.

The two were killed in the early hours of Tuesday, they said.

Giving details of the incident, a police spokesman said Abrar - a top commander of LeT involved in many killings - was arrested during checking of vehicles at Parimpora on Monday and put on sustained interrogation.

The LeT commander confessed that he had kept his AK-47 rifle in Maloora locality, the spokesman said.

There was a "specific input" about militants carrying an attack on highways. Keeping in view the seriousness of the input, a few joint checkposts of the police and...