The Indian security forces are carrying out a series of operations to uproot the network of Pak-backed terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir. In the latest operation a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was killed in an encounter in Kulgam district. However, a policeman was also killed and five people, including three soldiers, were also injured.The encounter started after security forces launched a joint operation at Pariwan area of Kulgam district following information about the presence of militants there. With the Murree tragedy, the LeT group is active again and is using this incident to gain sympathy and subsequently recruits, which puts a serious question over Pakistani government’s claims that it is containing such terror groups. Banned organizations are not allowed to resume activities after changing names but in Pakistan it is very much possible. In the past two decades, several groups accused of carrying out terror attacks have avoided a crackdown by changing their names. At one side, amid international pressure, Pakistan government pretends to launch a crackdown on these terror groups, on the other, terror leaders in Pakistan continue to carry rallies and hold meetings openly. Recently. addressing a press conference Indian Army chief said that the concentration of some 350 to 400 terrorists in terror launch pads and training facilities on the other side of the Line of Control and repeated infiltration attempts "expose" the "nefarious intents" of the adversary. A Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is posing the threat of exacerbating the volatile situation in Kashmir. Kashmir has a long history of insurgency with roots in Afghanistan in the late 1980s. It was during the USSR-Afghanistan Mujahideen conflict that the insurgency in the valley began. At that time, fighters from Afghanistan, along with the Pakistani army, had trained Kashmiri insurgents. When the Taliban took control in the early 1990s, they provided safe havens to Kashmiris who needed to recompose before returning to the insurgents’ ranks. Experts do believe that a redux of the Taliban controlling territory and providing shelter to terrorist groups could cause a flare-up of tensions in Kashmir.
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