Kashmir Resistance has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack in Kashmir

24/4/2025 6:13

Kashmir Resistance, also known as

The Resistance Front, has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's

attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, the deadliest

incident of its kind in India since the 2008 shootings in

Mumbai.



Here are some facts about the group.







WHAT IS TRF?



TRF emerged in 2019 and is considered an offshoot of the

Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, according to the South Asia

Terrorism Portal, a Delhi-based think tank.



Indian security officials said TRF uses the name Kashmir

Resistance on social media and online forums, where it claimed

responsibility for Tuesday's attack in Indian Kashmir's Pahalgam

area.



Lashkar-e-Taiba, listed as a foreign terrorist organisation

by the United States, is the Islamist group accused of plotting

attacks in India and in the West, including the three-day

assault on Mumbai in November 2008.



"This is basically a front of the LeT. These are groups

which have been created over the last years, particularly when

Pakistan was under pressure from the Financial Action Task Force

and they were trying to create a pattern of denial that they

were involved in terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir," said Ajai

Sahni, head of the South Asia Terrorism Portal.







WHAT HAS THE GROUP DONE?



The group has not previously had any large incidents

attributed to it, according to Sahni.



"All TRF operations are essentially LeT operations. There

will be some measure of operational freedom as to where they hit

on the ground, but the sanction would have come from the LeT,"

Sahni said.







WHAT DOES INDIA SAY ABOUT TRF?



India's interior ministry told parliament in 2023 that the

group had been involved in the planning of killings of security

force personnel and civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.



The group also co-ordinated the recruitment of militants and

the smuggling of weapons and narcotics across the border,

the ministry said.



Intelligence officials told Reuters that TRF had also been

issuing online threats against pro-India groups for the past two

years.







WHAT DOES PAKISTAN SAY?



Pakistan has denied that it supports and funds militants in

Kashmir, saying it offers only moral and diplomatic support.