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2021-10-11 India-Pakistan
Recent killings in J&K aimed at a grand revival of the Al-Badr
[OneIndia] The recent spate of killings in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
have been claimed by a little known outfit called The Resistance® Force, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. With Pakistain facing the heat at the world stage for openly using outfits such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
in Jammu and Kashmir the strategy now is to create new terror groups in a big to avoid the heat.

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However in the Kashmir context the recent killings of non-Moslem civilians is also aimed at something very big. First and foremost, the intention is to create fear in the minds of the people. These killings are also aimed at enhancing the local recruitment process and more importantly the revival of the terror group al-Badr.

This terror group has been off the radar for long. It was formed by the ISI and had been encouraged to act independently from the previous umbrella group, the Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
. This group prior to its separation from the Hizbul Mujahideen had fought in Afghanistan in 1990 alongside the anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahideen. The group was quite prominent in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 2000s. In 2002, it had ordered all women police in the Rajouri district of Kashmir to quit their jobs. The group is also part of the United Jihad Council, a coalition of Pakistain based turbans who are active in the Jammu and Kashmir region. The al-Badr came to Kashmir with the sole intention of liberating it from the Indian state.

However the group has now gone down in strength thanks to the increased presence of the Indian Army along the Line of Control. The group has been trying to revive itself in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2018 it had grabbed credit for a grenade attack in Pulwama in which 23 people were maimed.

In 2006, two members of the al-Badr were arrested in Mysore and weapons were seized from them.

The police claimed that they had managed to foil a major terror attack. Such incidents of al-Badr cadres being arrested have been reported in several other parts of the country, but now the Intelligence assessment suggests that they want to make a grand revival in Kashmir.

Last month the Jammu and Kashmir police foiled a terror plot when it arrested a terrorist associated with The Resistance® Front. One of the arrested, Suhail Shah of Pulwama was pursuing a nursing course in Chandigarh. He was tasked to plant an IED in Jammu by his Pakistain based handler who is affiliated with the al-Badr. This development makes it clear that the TRF and al-Badr work in tandem.

An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that there are inputs about the al-Badr trying to make a revival. They work closely with the TRF and while using the name of the outfit, they would try and revive themselves. They clearly do not want the the heat on them at this moment and hence are working behind the scenes with the TRF, the official also said.

The Centre on the other hand has sent counter terrorism teams to Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the killings. Several other teams of the national security agencies have already reached J&K and they would assist the Jammu and Kashmir police to put an end to these spate of assassinations.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-10-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top
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