TRF grows as deadly terror group in J&K

TRF, a proxy of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which claimed responsibility for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, was Thursday added as a designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the US State Department

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

The Resistance Front (TRF) emerged in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 and is today amongst the deadliest terror groups in the region with former Pakistani Special Service Group (SSG) commandos in its ranks, intelligence sources said Friday.

TRF, a proxy of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which claimed responsibility for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, was Thursday added as a designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the US State Department.

Besides the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed, the group is also confirmed to be involved in four other major attacks in the past two years.

These are the attack on pilgrims in Reasi in June 2024, on migrant construction workers in the Z-Morh tunnel (also known as the Sonamarg tunnel) in Ganderbal in October 2024; the September 13, 2023 Kokernag encounter that left a colonel, a major and a deputy superintendent of police dead; and the July 8, 2020 attack on a BJP leader killing him and two of his family members in Bandipora district.

The attacks in Reasi and Ganderbal left 16 persons, including seven pilgrims, dead and scores of others injured, sources told PTI.