Though Pakistan is faced with a massive economic breakdown and its citizens are struggling to meet basic needs, the country shows no intention of slowing down on supporting and sponsoring jihad terrorists. At least five army personnel, including a Junior Commissioned Officer, have lost their lives after being severely wounded in the terror attacks that took place in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua last week. The injured soldiers were admitted to a military hospital. The heavily armed Islamic terrorists ambushed the army truck in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district at around 3:30 pm on Monday, July 8. The targeted military vehicle was on a routine patrol around the Machhedi-Kindli-Malhar road when the attack occurred.
“An army truck was ambushed by armed terrorists in Badnota village of Loi Malhar area in Billawar on Monday afternoon. The terrorists believed to be two to three in number, first lobbed a grenade and then resorted to firing from automatic weapons. At least four soldiers were killed and six others injured in the ambush,” said a police officer, who refused to be identified.
According to news reports and first-hand accounts from local civilians, incessant firing continued till 5 pm, followed by intermittent firing for the next hour. Two hours of continuous gunfire were reported from the ambush site before reinforcements arrived. Indian troops retaliated immediately, fighting back till the terrorists vanished into the dense woods. An official disclosed to news agencies that the soldiers of the Garhwal regiment “unleashed a barrage of 5,189 rounds on the terrorists, forcing them to flee the scene.”
This tragic incident came close on the heels of four back-to-back terror attacks last month. Shortly after the news broke and left the country stunned, Kashmir Tigers claimed responsibility for the ambush attack. Kashmir Tigers is a shadow jihadist affiliate of the Pakistan-backed terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).
The name of Kashmir Tigers first made it to the headlines in January 2021, following the abrogation of Article 370 in India’s Jammu and Kashmir. The group claimed responsibility for a grenade attack in South Kashmir in June 2021. In December 2021, the outfit attacked a police bus in Srinagar, killing three and injuring 11 others.
Jihadist outfits that primarily cropped up after the abrogation of Article 370 follow a particular strategy in their nomenclature. While these groups are formed to serve the purpose of Islamic dominance, unlike ISIS or JeM, they have purged their names of religious connotations. Their deceptive aim behind adopting a secular name is to keep people from linking Islam with their acts of terrorism, though their actions are prompted by Islam’s jihad doctrine.
“Pakistan is under pressure to increase the pitch of militancy in J&K but can’t ignore the FATF,” said a police officer. “Since the names of Lashkar and Jaish are associated with Pakistan and have a religious connotation, they decided to change the names. It is also an attempt to portray militancy as secular and indigenous,” he added. The FATF is the the Financial Action Task Force, a global money laundering and terrorist finance watchdog.
Police sources also revealed that these newly created outfits have around 150 to 200 jihadis in three or four major groups, all of which have different modules that are named differently. When quizzed about the secular nature of the jihad groups thriving in J&K, police officials confirmed that “the members of different outfits are essentially the same.”
The terrorists involved in this incident are believed to have recently crossed the international border of India and Pakistan. That Pakistan has reportedly been linked to these incidents surprises no one. These repeated attacks have decisively shattered the flawed sense of security that India’s pro-Pakistan lobby was trying to propagate among Indians, selling the gullible Indian population a perception of a changed Pakistan with a relative restraint on its terror apparatus in recent years. Pakistan and terrorism go hand-in-hand, and such is the case of any Islamic state that leans toward Sharia adherence. Bangladesh in recent times is an example of this phenomenon.
JS says
After all these years shouldn’t the world know better than to believe a word that Islam says? They are pathological liars that are crafty and devious. It’s time we all woke up.
Tony Rice says
Muslims either just outside or inside India are playing with firer by ” teasing ” India, already the 5th largest economy in the world but on the way to being the biggest and when it really gets underway, will replace China, so the Muslims especially inside India killing in the name of Allah, are pulling the tail of a tiger.. And being outnumbered by 7 to 1 , setting themselves up for retribution.