Gollum Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 - Lashkar-e-Islam, the new militant outfit that has emerged in Kashmir, on Friday warned telecommunication companies to wind up all operations within a day in the Valley or else face the consequences. - "From now, if telecommunication networks, recharge service vendors, tower land owners don't stop their work we will take action against them. They have only one day to wind up their work," the outfit's field operation spokesman Gazi Abu Sariq said in a statement released to a local news agency, KNS. - The statement said that in the last three weeks, through posters and pamphlets, people were asked to snap telecom towers as senior commanders of 'jihadi' organisations were killed because of telecommunications, "causing much damage to the movement". - Referring to several attacks in the last one week over telecom towers, Lashkar-e-Islam asked people in the telecom business not to ignore its threat, saying the result of "ignoring such warnings are known to all". A BSNL employee and the father of a sarpanch who had mobile tower installed in his residential compound were gunned down this week. - "When the Indian government asked telecom service providers a year ago to suspend the SMS service as it benefited the Mujahideen, it took these telecommunication networks less than half an hour to stop the services. Today when for the sake of Islam we ask these telecommunication networks to suspend their operations, why reluctance is shown? Why have they not stopped their services till now? Even private recharge vendors are doing their business. Land owners also are not dismantling telecom towers," the statement said. - Sariq even warned Hurriyat leaders not to interfere in their affairs and forge unity. "We want to tell you (Huriyat) leaders, do not participate in the funeral procession of any martyr and never do politics by lecturing on these occasions. Stop playing politics over the blood of martyrs - we will not accept it," said the statement. - Intelligence agencies say Lashkar-e-Islam is a front for Hizbul Mujahideen and has been operational in Sopore and adjoining districts for some time. Agencies do not see it as a major threat as of now, as it is in line with the practice of Pakistan-backed terror groups in the Valley to raise such outfits. - Since last May, when the NDA came to power at the Centre, there has been a surge in the number of terrorists neutralized in the Valley. :two_thumbs_up: - In this light, the response of separatists, with JKLF chief Yasin Malik calling for a probe by Pakistan-based United Jihad Council (UJC) and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, could be a red herring. - As also the response of Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who in his usual rhetorical style, insinuated that the Sopore attacks were an Indian conspiracy against Kashmiri separatists. "Exactly who killed innocent people in Sopore is unclear, but the recent statement of defence minister Manohar Parrikar, that the government will 'target terrorists with terrorists' gives birth to many questions and raises doubts....may be it is a deliberate attempt to put the terrorist tag on the freedom struggle of Kashmiris," Geelani said. - Late Thursday evening, IG (Kashmir range) Syed Javaid Mujtaba Geelani held Hizbul Mujahideen responsible for the killings and threatening people linked to the telecom sector in North Kashmir. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/New-outfit-emerges-in-Kashmir-valley-targets-telecom-towers/articleshow/47464457.cms http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/05/28/india-kashmir-telecoms-idINKBN0OD20W20150528 http://gadgets.ndtv.com/telecom/news/mobile-services-disrupted-in-kashmir-after-attacks-on-telecom-sector-697437 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Attacks on telecom installations 'temporary phase', says Jammu & Kashmir CM Mufti Sayeed 2 persons have already been killed and 3 others critically injured by the attack of Hizbul backed Lashkar-e-Islam terrorists. Enough of talks time for action now. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/47482285.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 'Recruitment of youths in terror groups, attacks in J&K ring alarm bell' Is BJP sleeping? http://www.niticentral.com/2015/06/07/islamist-terror-recruitment-in-kashmir-316971.html http://zeenews.india.com/news/jammu-and-kashmir/recruitment-of-youths-in-terror-groups-attacks-in-jk-ring-alarm-bell_1609006.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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