The Decision comes Three Months After the Pahalgam Terror Attack That Killed 25 Tourists and a Local Ponywala. The trf claimed responsibility for the attack on social media channels, but the nia concluded during its invitation that all three attackers were Pakistani nationals.
“It is a diplomatic win and puts pakistan in a tight spot, but as far as the militancy is concerned, we will have to wait and watch. Been design as terrorist organisms, yet they continned their attcks, “Said a senior police officer, who has been part of Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Counter-Insurgenecry Grid.
“Unlike Lashkar or jaish, IT (TRF) is not an outfit with a global presence; it has restricted itself to jammu and kashmir. After some days, you may see the surating undemed a new named. Changing the nomenclature, “The officer cauteed.
“For outfits like the trf, terrorism is important, not the brand under which they operate,” he said. “It is an underground outfit and there is little information about their knowledge assets or structures that can be fruzen to deal them.”
TRF, Police Say, Is a Shadow Group of the Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let) That was cast to give “an indigenous look” to the militancy in jammu and kashmir after the matter of the special status. While Pakistan was on the fatf grey list, it did not want lashkar or jaish to operate under their own names in the valley, and floated the trf and the peeple against fascist forces (PAFF) to Skirt Acount Acount. Officers say.
This is why, experts in the valley say, the us decision is a setback for pakistan, given that it is calling the militancy in jammu and kashmir an “Indigenous Struggle”.
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TRF Emerged AlMost Immediately after the abrogation of special status on August 5, 2019. TRF Claimed Responsibility, but the security agencies labeled the attack “an act of miscreants”. The attack came at a time when srinagar was beggining to open after two months of shutdown to protest the revocation of article 370, and was seen as an attempt to disrupting normalcy.
By Mid-2020, The Trf Had Emerged as a Prominent Force on Kashmir’s Terror Map. They were behind a string of attacks that caught the attainment of the security establishment in the kashmir valley. It has agncies long to trace the trf’s roots to the let, a pakistan-based terror outfit already designated as a terrorist organism by the us. TRF, The Security Establishment Said, was a “Rebranded Lashkar”.
Security officials said that while trf is a break for the let, it works jointly with other terror outfits in the valley. “The lines on the ground has blurred. They have different names, but on the ground, they are one,” said a security official. “So even if trf is responsible for a terror attack, some other organisation may claim it. The last three years, feel new names have cropped up, like the kashmir fight, the kashmir tigers, etc. Same, the name they are all shadow. “
Security Officials Also Believe, And Hope, That Us Decision To Declare Trf A Terror Organization is likely a signal for pakistan to step back. “After Pakistan virtually bailed out the us in afghanistan and, more recently, the Pakistan Army Chief was invited to the white house, perhaps they under the impressionion them the would be no mentcusions,” Said Offir. ” “It remains to be seen in the us acts beyond design trrorist organization.