India Narrative

The recovery of a massive cache of small arms and ammunition from a terror hideout in Srinagar on Monday has exposed a plot of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET) and its local front TRF to disturb peace and spread fear with target killings across the Kashmir valley. The small arms haul was seized hours after TRF threatened to carry out attacks on the annual Amarnath pilgrimage which is scheduled to commence on June 28. Senior Police officials said that developing an operation on technical and human intelligence, the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Srinagar District Police swooped on a terrorist hideout at Chhanapora, on the outskirts of Srinagar late on Sunday night, and recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition. The house under the scanner belonged to Umar Mushtaq and Amir Mushtaq, sons of one Mushtaq Ahmad Khan. The seizure included 15 pistols and 30 pistol magazines with 300 rounds of ammunition and one silencer. Preliminary reports said that Mushtaq Khan had been working as an ag

International terror outfit, Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack inside Peshawar’s Shia Mosque Imambargah during  Friday prayers. Over 60 worshippers were killed, and over 200 injured in the suicide attack. ISIS-K posted a statement, claiming responsibility, on the group's Amaq News Agency. The statement identified the attacker as an Afghan, and posted his picture. It added that “Islamic State fighters are constantly targeting Shiites living in Pakistan and Afghanistan despite the intense security measures adopted by the Taliban militia and the Pakistani police to secure Shia mosques and centers.” The posting named Julaybib al Kabuli as the suicide bomber . He could be seen wearing a suicide vest and bearing a T56-1 AK rifle. The statement then gave a detailed account of how the suicide bomber  had stormed the Shiite Mosque in Peshawar after shooting two Pakistani police officers. “The assault was clearly intended to target Shia worshipp