India Administry Jammu and Kashmir is Grappling with its Deadliest Attack inTwo Decades On Tuesday, Gunmen Opened Fire on Tourists in the Popular Town of Pahangam, Killing 26 males. A Little-Known Armed Group Calling Itself the Resistance Front (TRF) Allegedly Claimed Responsibility.
In the Days that Followed, India Suspended A Decades-Old Water-Sharing Treaty with Pakistan, Announced the CLOSURE OF A TRICK BOPER CROSSING, Withdrew Visas for Pakistani National and Accused Islamabad of Enabling Cross-Border TerrorismPakistani Officials Have Denied Any Involvement In Response, Islamabad Cancelled Visas Issued to Indians and Closed Its Airspace to Indian Planes.
The Attack Has Drawn Attention to the Network of Militant Groups Active inKashmir While most of these teams are formally outlawed in Pakistan, Indian Officials Allege They Continue to Function With the Support of Pakistan’s Military Intelligence, Operating Freely Across the Border.
Some Groups have actually rebranded, Others Splintered- however their purposes Remain Largely Aligned: to Challenge Control Over Indian-Administered Region of Kashmir and oftentimes, Merge the area withPakistan Several Groups Have Previously Fought Alongside the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Framing Their Cause as component of a Broader Global Jihad.
The Militant Landscape in Kashmir isFluid Factions Frequently Change Allegiances, and Share Fighters – Making the Insurgency Difficult to Track, Contain, Or Eliminate.
Here’s a take a look at the Major Insurgent Groups Currently Active in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Resistance Front (Trf)
The Resistance Front (Trf) Emerged in 2019 in the results of India’s Abrogation of Article 370, which Striped Jammu and Kashmir of Its Special Constitutional Status.
Trf makes use of the pen names “kashmir resistance” on social networks and on-line discussion forums, where it supposedly took duty for the current pahalgam Attack.
The Group Portrays Itself As a Secular Movement, distancing itself from over obviousIslamist Rhetoric Indian Authorities, However, Assert it is a spin-off of lashkar-e-taiba (Let), Using Let’s Logistical Networks and Resources.
India Designates Trf AS A Terrorist Organization.
Lashkar- e-Taiba (Let)
Founded in 1990, Lashkar- E-Taiba (Translated As “Army of the Righteous,” Or “Army of the Pure”) is among the area’s Most Well-Known Islamist Militant Groups Designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by Countries Including the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, As Well as The United Nations, The Group’s Primary Aim Is The End of Indian Administration ofJammu And Kashmir
Though Banned by Islamabad in 2002, The Pakistan-Based Group Remains Active Pakistan has actually been implicated of refraining from doing sufficient to suppress Let’s Activities, Despite theBan The Group Is Often Blamed by India for Carrying Out High-Profile Armed Attacks, Not just in Kashmir, however Across India.
Let does not often tend to Claim duty for assaults. Several Let Members Were Convicted for the 2000 Red Fort Attack on among India’s Most Famous Landmarks, in which Three People Were Killed, Although the Group Did not Publicly Claim duty.
Members were suggested in the 2008 Mumbai Attacks, According to Indian and International Investigations, which Killed More Than 160 People and Paralyzed India’s Financial Capital for Three Days.
Unlike Other Salafi-Jihadi Groups in Pakistan, Let Publicly Denounces Sectarian Violence Against Other Muslim Sections and Bans Its Fighters From Targeting Pakistan’s Government.
Hizbul Mujahideen (Hm)
Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Founded in 1989, what Once the Most plainly militant team inKashmir Long Associated with Pakistan’s fundamentalist Jamaat- E-Islami Movement, The Group’s Influence Has Waned in Recent Years, Particular Afer the Deaths of Its Key Commanders, Including Burhan Wani, Sabzar Ahmed Bhat, in 2017.
Jaish- e-Mohammed (jem)
Another Key Player is Jaish- E-Mohammed (JEM), A Pakistan-Based Sunni Islamist Group Founded in 2000 by Radical Islamist Cleric Masood Azhar Following His Release from an Indian Prison for 155 Hostage Airlines Airlines Airplane.
Though Banned in Pakistan in 2002, Jem Continues to Operate Openly in Parts of the Country, along with India andIndian Administry Kashmir The Group’s Stated Goal is to Unite Kashmir withPakistan It had actually as long intended to eliminate western soldiers from Afghanistan.
JEM HAS ACTUALLY EXECUTED NUMEROUS HIGH-Profile Attacks, Including the 2001 Suicide Bombing of the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly Building, which Left Over 30 Dead And The 2019 Pulwama Bombing that Killed at LISTING 40 Indian Paramilitary When A Suicide Bomber Drove ACar Into Their Convoy
The United Nations, The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Several Other Countries Designate Jem As aForeign Terrorist Organization The Group Has Operational Ties to Let, The Taliban and Al-Qaeda, with Fighters from Pakistan, Kashmir, and Afghan and Arab Veterans of the Soviet-Afghan
Al Badr: Jammu & Kashmir
Al Badr (Translated as ‘The Full Moon’), created in the very early 1990s as a dissenting group of hizbul mujahideen, is recognized for its combat-hardden competitors, most of whom formerly offered with afghan militia leader gulbuddin hekmatyar’s hizb-i-islami in Afghanistan.
The Group Maintances Ties to Transnational Jihadi Networks and Has Reportedly Clashed with Indian Forces Along The Line of Control, The Das Facto Border Between and Pakistani Troops in Jammu and Kashmir andLadakh However, thesis Accounts Remain Difficult to Independently Verify.
Ansar Ghazwat-Ul-Hind (AGH)
Ansar Ghazwat-Ul-Hind (AGH), Established in 2017, Represents Al-Qaeda’s Presence in theKasmir Conflict Officially Recognized as a Branch of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), The Group is ideologicalally devoted to Establishing to Islamic State Under Sharia Law in Kashmir.
Its Founder, Zakir Musa, a Former Hizbul Mujahideen Commander, Broke Ranks Due to ideologicalDifferences Agh Has Since Positioned Itself As a Purist Jihadist Group, Rejecting Nationalist Goals in Favor of Global Islamist Objectives.
Edited by S. Sinico
