Hybrid terrorists from banned organisation’ black ops groups are being investigated
It’s July 13 in New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) announced on Thursday that it had conducted additional raids at the homes of hybrid terrorists and Overground Workers (OGWs) of the outfits and affiliates of Pakistan-backed banned organisations as part of its ongoing investigations into a terrorist conspiracy case involving Jammu and Kashmir.
The agency said in a statement that it had discovered online threats from a group calling itself The Resistance Front (TRF), which it described as “a shadow organisation of Lashkar-e-Taiba.”
Shopian, Awantipora, and Pulwama are the three districts where today’s raids took place. According to the statement, the NIA conducted raids on the homes of supporters and members of the newly formed groups, including The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu and Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers (KT), PAAF, and others. These groups have ties to terrorist organisations outlawed in Pakistan such as Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr (Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria), and others.
Today’s searches, which have once again highlighted OGWs as a crucial element of the terror ecosystem in the Valley and are continuing to destroy it, resulted to the recovery of multiple digital devices with enormous quantities of damning material, according to the NIA. They aid militants and terrorists located in Pakistan and are thus classified as hybrid terrorists.
On June 21, 2022, the NIA opened a case of its own accord (RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU) to look into allegations that members of different organisations had disseminated terror, violence, and subversion across Jammu and Kashmir. These cadres and employees have accumulated and dispersed sticky and magnetic explosives, IEDs, money, drugs, and weapons. According to NIA investigations, Pakistan-based agents were spreading terror propaganda on social media. It said that the group was using drones to supply its agents and cadres in the Kashmir valley with weapons, ammunition, explosives, drugs, and other materials. The terrorist plot involves the planning and execution of violent terrorist acts in J&K using sticky bombs, IEDs, small guns, etc. by the banned organisations in both physical and cyber space. The document said that the outfits, with the backing of their masters in Pakistan, had been plotting to conduct acts of terror and bloodshed in J&K by radicalising local youth and mobilising overground workers.
