The Pakistan-sponsored The Resistance Front (TRF), a terror group floated by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), has said police is its prime target in Jammu & Kashmir and next on the radar is the Government.
The TRF self-styled commander Irfan in a statement said, “The war we have waged is in particular against the State Police because they are our real enemies and then the occupying India.”
While urging his family members not to trace him, he exhorted the youth of Kashmir, especially those from Srinagar to be ready for the so-called jehad.
The TRF statement further extended assurance that those who had recently met Irfan should also be ready for action as part of the self styled Liberation army of TRF.
TRF’s Irfan also sought to express solidarity with his neighbour Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Haji Parveez who had recently circulated a video in which he claimed that Kashmiri armed fighters came to target him.
“But that is not the fact. We have nothing to do with Parveez. If we had to target him, it was quite easy. I saw him early in the morning and I wished him, so there was no question of him as our target. But, yes, the guards of state police which accompanied Parveez were our target. Unfortunately there was only (policeman) one present at the spot when we targeted him,” the outfit said.
The JeM had late last year floated the TRF in order to project the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism as a home grown jehad and help Islamabad in denying its role for terrorism in India, sources said.
Post the Balakot strikes and Indian agencies’ bid to eliminate the JeM boss Maulana Masood Azhar through poisonous injection by a set of compromised doctors of the Pak military medical corps, the outfit has been distancing itself from being seen as the key terror player in the region, they added.