J&K Conducts Extensive Search Over Militant Threat To Journalist

In connection with threats made against journalists by the terrorist group The Resistance Front, the Jammu and Kashmir Police launched extensive searches at eleven locations on Saturday.

According to police, the searches were carried out in the Valley's Srinagar, Anantnag, and Kulgam districts.

Police have begun conducting extensive searches at ten locations in Srinagar, Anantnag, and Kulgam as part of their investigation into a recent threat against journalists. 

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants and handlers as well as The Resistance Front (TRF), a LeT front organisation, were accused by the authorities of threatening journalists in Kashmir with letters on November 12. A few media outlets in the Valley have received an online threat from the TRF for their traitorous deeds and nexus with fascist Indian regime.

In response to the threat, a number of journalists left regional publications.

The threats are believed to be the work of Mukhtar Baba, a terrorist operating out of Turkey, and six of his associates in Jammu and Kashmir, according to an intelligence report.

Baba (55) used to work for a number of Kashmiri newspapers. In the 1990s, he lived in Srinagar and is thought to have fled to Turkey, the report added.

Baba, who frequently travels to Pakistan, has established himself as the mastermind in charge of preparing young people in the Valley to join the TRF, according to the dossier.

According to the report, two of his suspected six valley-based collaborators have been identified.