Pakistan-backed terror outfit threatens Kashmiri voices exposing Islamabad
India Today
As Pakistan marks Kashmir Solidarity Day, serious allegations emerge against its intelligence agencies for using terror proxies to silence Kashmiri intellectuals exposing Islamabad's state-sponsored terrorism. The latest threat targets a counter-terrorism expert highlighting Pakistan's proxy war in Kashmir on international platforms.
As Pakistan prepares to observe its so-called “Kashmir Solidarity Day” on February 5, its intelligence establishment is facing serious allegations of using terror proxies to threaten and eliminate Kashmiri intellectuals who expose Islamabad’s state-sponsored terrorism before international audiences.
In the latest instance, Lashkar-e-Taiba, operating under its proxy outfit The Resistance Front, has issued a direct death threat to counter-terrorism expert Junaid Qureshi, Director of the European Foundation for South Asian Studies. The threat was sent through an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform using TRF branding.
In the message, Qureshi was branded a “traitor”, with the group saying it would have “no hesitation” in killing him. This is the second such threat in six months against individuals who have challenged Pakistan’s terrorism narrative and its proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir at global forums.
The threat fits into a long pattern of violence against Kashmiri civilians, journalists and intellectuals who have opposed militancy or supported India.
Between 1989 and 2020, Pakistan-backed terror outfits killed more than 5,000 Kashmiri civilians, politicians, journalists and thinkers for resisting extremism.
One of the most prominent cases was the killing of Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari in June 2018, after months of open threats by Hizbul Mujahideen. In April last year, social activist Ghulam Rasool Magray was shot dead in Kupwara by suspected terrorists.
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