Kashmir Militancy: Same Factory of Terror Producing Different 'Brands'
3 years, 2 months ago

Kashmir Militancy: Same Factory of Terror Producing Different 'Brands'

The Quint  

The answer to this question is not absolute. The United Nations, the United States of America, and other countries listed them as globally recognised terror outfits. It is a marketing construct devised to give a new identity to the old militant outfits operating in J&K. Now and then, new militant brands appear on known Telegram channels of militant organisations operating in Kashmir. There is Peoples’ Anti-Fascist Front, The Gaznavi Force, The United Liberation Front, The Geelani Force, Lashkar e Mustafa, among some others that pop up for a while and disappear.

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NIA attaches property of key terror accused involved in killing of two non-locals in Kashmir
1 month, 1 week ago

NIA attaches property of key terror accused involved in killing of two non-locals in Kashmir

India TV News  

Terrorist attack: As part of its efforts to dismantle the Kashmir terror network, the National Investigation Agency has attached the immovable property of a key terror accused involved in the killing of two non-locals in the valley in February this year, according to an official statement issued on Thursday. According to the NIA, the accused, Adil Manzoor Langoo, is linked …

CCTV Footage Shows Two Armed Terrorists Entering Ganderbal Camp Site
2 months ago

CCTV Footage Shows Two Armed Terrorists Entering Ganderbal Camp Site

Live Mint  

CCTV footage shows two militants armed with US-made M4 carbine and AK-47s in a terror attack in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The terrorists entered the gates of a mess of an infrastructure company, along the Srinagar-Leh National highway, and started shooting, killing seven people including a doctor. The footage has emerged days after the attack.

Terror activities on a rise in J-K: Why are Pakistani terrorist groups using shadow outfits for attacks?
5 months ago

Terror activities on a rise in J-K: Why are Pakistani terrorist groups using shadow outfits for attacks?

India TV News  

The terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in the last one and a half months have put the spotlight back on the rise of terrorism in the region and Pakistan using its stooges – the shadow outfits – for bloodshed. The ‘Kashmir Tigers’, which is a shadow group of Jaish-e-Mohammad, claimed responsibility for attacks in Doda and Kathua in which …

NIA cracks down on newly floated terror outfits across Kashmir, seizes incriminating material
1 year, 6 months ago

NIA cracks down on newly floated terror outfits across Kashmir, seizes incriminating material

India TV News  

The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday cracked down once again on the newly floated terrorist outfits in Jammu and Kashmir, and seized incriminating literature and several digital devices. The searches were conducted at three locations in the Kashmir valley, in the residential premises of sympathizers/cadres, hybrid terrorists and Over Ground Workers linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of several …

NIA cracks down on terror groups, launches fresh raids in Jammu and Kashmir
1 year, 7 months ago

NIA cracks down on terror groups, launches fresh raids in Jammu and Kashmir

Live Mint  

The National Investigation Agency launched fresh raids at 16 locations across Jammu and Kashmir in a Pakistan-backed terror conspiracy case on Tuesday. The development came mere days after the federal agency conducted raids at 12 locations and seized incriminating material and digital devices in connection with the case. The case pertains to the hatching of a conspiracy and plans by …

MHA designates two outfits as terror organisations under UAPA
1 year, 10 months ago

MHA designates two outfits as terror organisations under UAPA

The Hindu  

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday designated the Khalistan Tiger Force and the Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force as terrorist organisations under the Unlawful Activities Act, 1967. A Punjab resident, Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, who is presently based in Pakistan’s Lahore, was also designated as an “individual terrorist” under the anti-terror law. The Khalistan Tiger Force came into …

Government crackdown on terror: two more groups banned, four individuals declared terrorists
1 year, 11 months ago

Government crackdown on terror: two more groups banned, four individuals declared terrorists

The Hindu  

Continuing its crackdown on terrorism The action against the terror groups and terrorists came amidst the repeated assertions by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the central government has adopted a zero tolerance policy towards terrorism. The MHA said the TRF is recruiting youth through online medium for furtherance of terrorist activities, recruitment of terrorists, …

Jammu and Kashmir: Hybrid terrorist affiliated with LeT apprehended
2 years, 2 months ago

Jammu and Kashmir: Hybrid terrorist affiliated with LeT apprehended

India TV News  

Highlights A hybrid terrorist affiliated with proscribed terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba has been nabbed The police also recovered arms and ammunition including a 9 mm Pistol from his possession The terrorist apprehended has been identified as Yawar Ahmed Jammu and Kashmir: A hybrid terrorist affiliated with the proscribed terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba has been apprehended, said Shopian police on Thursday. The police …

Pak Terror Handlers Using Proxy Outfits for Targeted Killings in Kashmir: Here's Their Destructive Plot
2 years, 6 months ago

Pak Terror Handlers Using Proxy Outfits for Targeted Killings in Kashmir: Here's Their Destructive Plot

News 18  

Pakistan-based terror handlers are using proxy outfits in the Kashmir valley to carry out targeted killings of Pandits, non-local labourers, political workers, security personnel, etc, sources have told CNN-News18. Valley-based Hizbul Mujahideen operatives especially in downtown Srinagar and South Kashmir are trying to float new proxy outfits in association with released terrorists and over ground workers under the instructions of …

Amit Shah asks JKP to use names of Pak-based terror groups not Valley affiliates
2 years, 7 months ago

Amit Shah asks JKP to use names of Pak-based terror groups not Valley affiliates

Hindustan Times  

Union home minister Amit Shah has directed Jammu and Kashmir Police and the security agencies to refrain from using names of new terror outfits in Jammu and Kashmir as they were only derivatives of Pakistan-based globally proscribed groups and designed by Rawalpindi to spread the narrative of home-grown terror in the Valley. The home minister’s directions came after the intelligence …

Terror module busted in J&K; eight held
2 years, 7 months ago

Terror module busted in J&K; eight held

Firstpost  

Srinagar: Security forces busted a terror module of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit by arresting seven terrorists and their associates in Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesman said. Investigating the recent encounters in Bandipora, police and security forces busted a terror module of LeT by arresting an active Pakistani-trained terrorist, two-hybrid terrorists and four terrorist associates including a woman, he said. “Preliminary …

62 terrorists killed in Jammu and Kashmir this year, 39 belonged to LeT: Police
2 years, 7 months ago

62 terrorists killed in Jammu and Kashmir this year, 39 belonged to LeT: Police

Hindustan Times  

As many as 62 terrorists have been killed so far this year in various encounters in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday. "Due to enhanced Humint, Techint and focused operations, the surviving rate of terrorists is drastically decreasing," Kashmir Zone Police tweeted quoting Kumar. As many as 39 of the 62 terrorists hailed from Lashkar-e-Taiba, while 15 belonged to …

‘Faceless Force’, ‘Invisible Outfit’: What is TRF and Its Sinister Plan for Kashmir
3 years ago

‘Faceless Force’, ‘Invisible Outfit’: What is TRF and Its Sinister Plan for Kashmir

News 18  

More than two years after the abrogation of Article 370, Kashmir is witnessing a relatively peaceful period. In what officials describe as ‘stable but sensitive’ situation, Kashmir is witnessing a new security challenge in the wake of brutal killings, especially of those belonging to the minority communities, claimed and perpetrated by a relatively new terror outfit, ‘The Resistance Front’. The …

Pakistan-Sponsored Terror Proxies With Basic Weapons, Local Youths 'Biggest Threat' to Kashmir
3 years, 2 months ago

Pakistan-Sponsored Terror Proxies With Basic Weapons, Local Youths 'Biggest Threat' to Kashmir

News 18  

With the killings of 11 civilians in 14 days in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan- Intelligence officials said unlike traditional working of terror outfits, proxies are the easiest and safest way of terror strategy adopted by Pakistan not only in India but also in Afghanistan. These proxies work with the local Kashmiri youth, use basic weapons such as pistols, require less …

Pakistani terror outfits using ‘hybrid terrorists’ for targeted attacks
3 years, 2 months ago

Pakistani terror outfits using ‘hybrid terrorists’ for targeted attacks

Op India  

Top government sources on Thursday informed that the Pakistani terror outfits are now using ‘hybrid terrorists’ to disrupt the atmosphere of peace and prosperity in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement to ANI, the government source revealed, “The hybrid terrorists used by these terror groups for these targeted killings are mostly engaged in normal jobs and …

Building Indian narratives and battling new militancy in Kashmir
3 years, 4 months ago

Building Indian narratives and battling new militancy in Kashmir

Hindustan Times  

Societies saddled with conflicts often reproduce the differentiation and distancing between two broader collectives, thus sharpening the divide between ‘us’ and ‘them’, which in turn reinforces the very same conflicts. The violent secessionist outbreak in 1989, and since then, the government’s anti-militancy and counterinsurgency operations, have embedded strong ‘Us vs Them’ narratives amongst the Kashmiris and alienated them from the …

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