A video of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT ) terrorists,equipped with illegal weapons, shouting Pro-Pakistan slogans and motivating youth to support them and join their ranks, inside a mosque in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district is creating ripples here in the corridors of power after it went viral on various social media platforms.
Some of the religious places in the area have been abused by the local cadre of different terror outfits to mobilise crowds to disrupt anti-terrorist operations in the past but presence of terrorists inside a religious place, on the occasion of festival of Eid, has caused major embarrassment to the local police authorities.
Soon after receiving the information about the movement of three LeT terrorists in the area the local police authorities swung in to action to track down their foot prints. Sensing trouble, these terrorists too did not wasted much time and fled the scene after seeking support from the local masses.
SSP Kulgam, Gurinderpal Singh told The Pioneer over telephone, “On June 5 about 9.45 am information was received that during Eid prayers, three terrorists equipped with illegal weapons entered Jamia Masjid Qaimoh in Kulgam”.
SSP Kulgam said, “The terrorists stayed there for about five minutes and tried to motivate the youth who were present there to support them and join terrorist ranks”. Before leaving, they fired some aerial shots, he added. SSP Kulgam said, “A criminal case in this regard under relevant sections has been registered in Police station Qaimoh.”
It may be mentioned, relentless operations conducted by the joint teams of security forces has led to elimination of over 100 terrorists in the first five months of this year. Of these over two dozen were foreign terrorists and 75 were local recruits. Majority of these operations were conducted in the South Kashmir area.
Facing shortage of manpower, the top commanders, resorted to this desperate move to motivate local youth to join their ranks.