Pak’s coordinated push shows up in joint terror teams killed by Kashmir cops
In 3 of the 17 encounters with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir since September 1, the police were up against a joint team of terrorists.
Pak’s coordinated push shows up in joint terror teams killed by Kashmir cops
Once the gunfight was over and the police officers started running background checks on the three suspected terrorists in south Kashmir’s Shopian district earlier this month, they discovered that the three men fighting them did not belong to one terrorist group but two: the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Al-Badr. They weren’t surprised. Security agencies had been reporting for some time that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence had been pushing terrorist groups in Jammu and Kashmir to work together. And there had been evidence on ground that Islamabad’s push to build synergy among terror groups may be working on the ground. The 7 October encounter was the third instance in two months that the police had eliminated a joint team of terrorists in Kashmir valley. Also Read: In Pak Army approach to terror in Kashmir, building synergy is new buzzword Intelligence inputs reviewed by Hindustan Times indicate that Pakistan Army’s efforts to forge operational synergy between the terrorist groups such a…
