Why Pakistan terror groups are using shadow outfits for attacks in J&K

The recent spate of terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir has put into focus the mushrooming of shadow militant outfits of Pakistan-based terrorist groups Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba. The 'Kashmir Tigers', a shadow group of Jaish-e-Mohammad, has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Doda and Kathua, where 10 security personnel were killed. Police sources informed India Today that Jaish-e-Mohammad was using a strategy of getting these shadow groups to claim responsibility for these attacks. In a 2021 terror attack, terrorists indiscriminately fired upon a police bus from the 9th Battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s armed wing in Zewan, on the outskirts of Srinagar.