The latest spark of escalation between India and Pakistan was the massacre of civilian terrorists in Kashmir last month.
The group of attackers concluded with a mild similarity that the Indian government projected onto the side of the troubled Kashmir region. The attacker emerged from the forest at a scenic picnic spot and killed 26 men. According to the witness’s account, almost all of their Hindus were identified by their religion, many of them were killed in front of their wives and families.
A little-known group called the Resistance Front has argued for responsibility. The Indian government said the group was a wider terrorist device front that worked in Pakistan and announced a series of strikes against Pakistan. Pakistan rejected these claims.
That’s what we know about the group that India said was targeted on a military strike.
What are the two main groups that India targeted?
Founded in the 1980s, Lashkar-e-Taiba was suspected of being a masterpiece from Pakistan, some of India’s worst terrorist attacks. It was added to the UN sanctions list in 2005.
One of the most lethal attacks in the organized group was the 2008 massacre in Mumbai, India’s financial hub, during which more than 160 people were killed. Almost dozens of gunmen arrived at the boat and engaged in the days of the massacre, including taking hostages at major hotels. One of the attackers was captured alive, and many accounts of the attack’s relationship with Pakistan came from his confession. He was sentenced in India in 2010 and executed in 2012.
Pakistan has confirmed Lashkar Aetaiba’s connection to India’s past violence, but it says the group was disbanded for illegally long ago. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the group, is free despite the short period of detention, and Indian officials say the group continues to operate through derivatives such as cover organizations and the Resistance Front.
Jaish-e-Mohammed, the second group that Indian officials said they were targeted in their attacks, had long had big hands on Kashmir militants. However, the activity is not limited there.
The group’s founder, Masood Azhar, was imprisoned in India in the 1990s for extremist activities in Kashmir, but was released in 1999 as part of a hostage contract.
Jaish-e-Mohammed has been accused of multiple deadly attacks in Kashmir. This led to the bombing of Indian convoys in 2019, causing the two countries to enter a brief conflict. It was also behind a fatal attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001.
What did India achieve on the strike?
Indian troops said they attacked nine Pakistan locations in the operation early on Wednesday, including facilities related to two terrorist costumes.
How many people were killed and the extent of damage to the group’s infrastructure was not entirely clear. Both sides had very different claims.
Indian officials, a briefing for lawmakers, said they killed “100 terrorists” on their strike. The Pakistani military has brought the death to 31.
On the ground, it was clear that many of the strikes had hit facilities associated with two terrorist groups, but it was not clear whether the facilities were up to date or older.
In Bahawalpur, Punjab, the most populous state of Pakistan, 13 people, including 10 members of Azhar’s family, have died in a strike against compounds related to Azhar. It was the most deadly thing of the strike.
Another strike in Malidke, a town about 25 miles from Pakistan’s Lahore city, struck a complex of buildings that previously served as the headquarters of Lashkar Etaiba, killing three people. However, Pakistani officials said they took over the building in 2019 after banning another Lashkar front outfit.
The other four sites targeted were previously said to be small seminaries and mosques linked to extremist groups and parts of Kashmir managed by Punjab and Pakistan.
