Marking a major shift in their propaganda strategy, a newly-floated terror outfit which claimed responsibility for targeting security forces in Baramulla on August 17, uploaded raw footage on Friday showing intense gunfight between them and the jawans of the security forces.
Top commander of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba Sajad Mir, alias Haider, along with another foreign terrorist and a local recruit were eliminated during a 30-hour long operation in the Kreeri area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Five security men, including two CRPF jawans, two Army jawans and one SPO of J&K police had attained martyrdom during the operation.
Responding swiftly on the social media, Jammu & Kashmir Police labeled it as a futile exercise to “glamourise” terrorism.
A brief statement posted by the Jammu & Kashmir Police on Friday read, “By releasing video of attack, terrorists want to glamourise terrorism. But they can’t. We replied by actions & killed four top commanders, Sajjad @ Haider & foreign terrorist Taimur Khan @ Abu Usman (seen in said video/attack) & Naseer @ Sad bhai and foreign terrorist Ali bhai @ Danish within 72 hours”.
In the past, the terror outfits either released a press statement or made a claim by dialing in offices of local news agencies.
It is for the first time a terror outfit has uploaded a video of their attack on security forces.
Local police authorities believed the terror outfit, The People’s Anti-Fascist Front, is just an another front of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and was recently floated to give an impression that local recruits were behind the front and Pakistani agencies and their handlers sitting across the border were not involved in this terrorism movement in Kashmir valley.
Defence sources maintained that ever since Pakistan has been isolated in the global war against terrorism, it is making desperate attempts to overhaul its image and remove sthe scourge that it’s the epicentre of terrorism in South Asian region.