Turkey-based terror operative Mukhtar Baba and 6 of his contacts in Jammu and Kashmir are suspected to be behind threats obtained by a number of journalists within the Valley previously couple of days, in response to an intelligence file.
A number of journalists resigned from native publications lately after being threatened by terror outfit The Resistance Entrance (TRF), a shadow organisation of the Lashker-e-Taiba.
As per the intelligence file, “preliminary evaluation means that terrorist Mukhtar Baba is the mastermind” behind the threats.
Mukhtar Baba (55) used to work for varied newspapers in Kashmir. He was a resident of Srinagar within the Nineteen Nineties and is believed to have escaped to Turkey, it mentioned.
Baba, who usually visits Pakistan, has emerged as a mastermind accountable for grooming children within the Valley to hitch the TRF, the file mentioned.
He’s suspected to be in contact with six associates within the Valley, and two of them have been recognized, it added.
Baba has constructed a community of informers within the journalist group, and used their inputs to organize a listing of scribes to threaten, the file mentioned.
In keeping with the doc, Mukhtar Baba was a member of the Hezbollah within the 90s however was thrown out unceremoniously after he was charged with promoting AK-47s to rival terror outfits. He joined Masarat Alam in 2010 with a pivotal position within the 2010 summer season agitation, it added.
TRF lately issued an internet menace to some media homes within the valley “for his or her traitorous” acts and “nexus with fascist Indian regime”. Srinagar police had registered a case and launched an investigation in view of the threats issued to journalists.
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