Pakistan Army Rawalpindi HQ has been able to forge operational synergy since August 2019 between the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists in the Kashmir Valley, according to contributions. intelligence reviewed by Hindustan Times. . The result of such synergy has generally been coordinated terrorist attacks.
The contributions reveal the efforts of terrorist groups based in Pakistan, with the active support of the intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of that country, to launch coordinated attacks against India in the wake of the constitutional changes promoted by the Center in August of last year. effectively repealing Article 370 which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir and reorganizing the state into two Union territories, J&K and Ladakh.
According to a dossier prepared by India’s intelligence and security agencies, a series of meetings between senior officials of banned terrorist organizations, including LeT, JeM, Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), and the Taliban, have been held with the commander of Jaish Mufti Mohammed Asghar Khan Kashmiri jointly coordinating terrorist operations at J & K.
The first key meeting, according to intelligence inputs, took place on December 27, 2019, when Amir Hamza, Secretary General of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, LeT’s father, met with senior JeM officials in Markaz Subhan Allah. Bahawalpur, to devise a joint strategy to share resources and intensify operations against India.
Follow-up meetings with the support of the deep state of Pakistan were held from January 3-8 and January 19, 2020 in Islamabad. These meetings were attended by senior officials of the two globally designated terrorist groups, including Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar, JeM de facto boss Maulana Ammar, brother of the sick JeM boss Masood Azhar, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, commander Chief operative of L: eT and Amir Hamza. After a decision was made on operational synergy, Mufti Asghar Kashmiri contacted LeT officials in Occupied Kashmir to implement the plan on the ground.
The second key meeting took place on May 7 in Islamabad between the commanders of LeT, JeM and HM, and focused on enhancing operational capabilities, including exchanging caches of weapons, ammunition and supporting workers on the ground. . According to intelligence inputs, the three Islamist groups decided that HM will take responsibility for all attacks in Jammu and Kashmir under the leadership of Mufti Asghar Kashmiri of JeM. In order to coordinate action in the Kashmir Valley and Jammu, it was decided that the head of SM, Syed Salahuddin, would contact Kashmiri and Abdul Aziz Alvi, head of JuD / LeT in occupied Kashmir. Before the May 7 meeting, Mufti Asghar Kashmiri already met with Salahuddin at Muzaffarabad in PoK to activate the synergy plan.
There are also other non-state actors involved.
After the signing of the peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban on February 29, the JeM leadership had also contacted the Afghan Taliban so that the terrorist commanders could be diverted to J&K once the ultra-conservative Sunni force came to power in Kabul. To that end and to train terrorist recruits in Taliban camps along the Durand Line, Jaish leaders met with Taliban representatives in Bahawalpur and the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in the presence of the commanders. overland operations from Kashmir operations, submissions show.
In addition to the main groups planning to create chaos and violence in Kashmir, new representatives such as The Resistance Front (TRF), Teehreek-e-Millat-e-Islami (TMI) and Ghaznavi Force have been revived at J&K to show that terrorism on the territory of the Union is indigenous and homegrown. TRF, a conglomerate of remains from Lashkar and Jaish, took responsibility for the Handwara encounter on May 2 in which five members of security personnel, including Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, were killed. A LeT operative, Haider, a Pakistani national, was also killed by security forces in the encounter.
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