In the Indian viewfinder, two Islamist groups. India and Pakistan bombed on Wednesday, May 7, killing at least 26 people on the Pakistani side and 8 on the Indian side, the most serious military confrontation between the two countries for two decades.
Since the armed attackers have triggered 26 men to the Indian Kashmir on April 22, the fire was reflecting between the two nuclear powers, rivals from their score in 1947. The diplomatic escalation resorted to the military confrontation on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
The two armies exchanged artillery fire along their border in a backman dispute, after India attacks the Pakistani soil in retaliation for Pahalgam’s attack. During these strikes, “nine terrorist camps (…) were destroyed,” said an Indian army spokesman, said Lieutenant Coronela Vyomika Singh.
In the viewfinder of the Indian forces: two Islamist groups based in Pakistan and designated as “terrorist” organizations of the UN Security Council.
The Lashkar-E-Taiba group accused of terrorism
The attack of April 22, which left 26 dead, mainly tourists, in Kashmir, is attributed by New Delhi to Lashkar-E-Taiba, an Islamist militant group directed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and based in Pakistan, in the Pendjab region, the most popular in the country.
The group, whose name means “the Army of the Pure”, is suspicious of the UN Security Council of having carried out several terrorist attacks, according to a press release initially published in 2010: a series of attacks in 2008 in Mumbai, India, which left 166 dead and interrupted the peace process between the two neighboring countries, as well as the Mumbai trains in 2006 and an attacks against Parliament 2001.
Lashkar-E-Taiba was registered by the UN in 2005 in the list of groups associated with Al-Quaida, Osama Bin Laden or the Taliban and their funds. Arrested in 2019, the leader of the Islamist group was convicted in 2020 multiple terrorist acts and currently meets a 31 -year prison sentence. His head had been put at the price of the United States, exciting demonstrations in Pakistan.
One of the sites led at night by the Indian army is the Allah Subhan Mosque in Bahawalpur, in the Pendjab Pakistani, linked according to Indian intelligence with groups close to the jihadist movement Lashkar-E-Taiba, including Jaish-E-Mohamma.
The Jaish-E-Mohammad Hard Hit group
The second claimed objective of the Indian strikes is another Islamist group based in the Pendjab, Jaish-E-Mohammad, or the army of the prophet Muhammad. Founded by the Islamist fighter Maulana Masood Azhar in 1999, the movement is also accused of several attacks, especially in the Jammu-Et-Cachemire region in 2016 and 2019, and having supported Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, according to the UN.
Prohibited in Pakistan in 2002 after being responsible, with the Lashkar -E -Taiba, an attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, the group would never have disappeared, remakeing the surface under other names. His will: to release the contemporary region of Kashmir to attach it to Pakistan.
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, India connected six cities in Kashmir and Pendjab Pakistaní. Maulana Masood Azhar, an Islamist terrorist designated by the UN based in Pakistan, announced that 10 family members and four nearby collaborators were killed in the attack against India against the subhan mosque Allah in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, reports the BBC.
In a statement published on Wednesday by Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM), the militant group of which he is a leader, indicates that his older sister and his husband, his nephew and his wife, a niece and five children of his family died.
Source: BFM TV
