India and Pakistan announce the ceasefire: direct updates

An unknown group called resistance resistance called for responsibility. The Indian government said that the group was a broader terrorist front that was operated from Pakistan. Pakistan rejected these claims.

Here is what we know about the groups that India said has targeted its military strikes.

What are the two main groups targeted by India?

Lashkar-E-TAIBA, founded in the eighties of the last century, has always been planning some of the worst terrorist attacks in India. It was added to the UN sanctions list in 2005.

It was one of the most bloody attacks that were organized by the group A 2008 terrorist attack in MumbaiAs more than 160 people were killed. Nearly ten gunmen arrived on boats and grabbed the hostages at a main hotel for several days. One of the attackers was alive, and many attacks in Pakistan came from his confessions. It was sentenced to India in 2010 and It was carried out in 2012.

Pakistan has confirmed the links of Lashkar-E-TAIBA with past violence in India, but it says that the group has been banned and resolved long ago. the Group founder, Hafiz SaeedIt is free despite the short detention periods, and Indian officials say that the group continues its activities through cover organizations and branches, such as the resistance front.

Jaish-E-Mohammed, the second group in which Indian officials said they have been targeted in their attacks, and have long have her hand in militancy in Kashmir. But its activities were not limited to the area.

The founder of the group, Masoud Azhar, was imprisoned in India in the nineties due to the armed activity in Kashmir, but it was It was issued as part of a hostage deal In 1999, the kidnappers made an Indian airline to Kandahar, Afghanistan, and demanded that Mr. Azhar and other militants be released in exchange for the liberation of more than 150 passengers who were holding them.

Army-Hamad is accused of multiple deadly attacks in Kashmir, including the 2019 bombing of an Indian military convoy that brought the two countries to Brief conflict. He was also behind a deadly attack on the Indian parliament in 2001.

What are the goals of the last strikes in India?

The Indian military forces said that they hit nine locations in Pakistan early on Wednesday morning, including facilities related to terrorist clothes.

The two sides have had a large scale allegations about the number of people who were killed and the extent of any damage to the groups’ infrastructure. These allegations cannot be independently verified.

Indian officials, who are directed to legislators, said they were killed about “100 terrorists” in their strikes. The Pakistani army put the number of deaths in 31.

On Earth, it was clear that many strikes had struck the facilities related to the two terrorist groups, although it was not clear whether the current facilities were or old.

In Bahawalbur, in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populated district, caused a blow to a complex linked to Mr. Azhar, killing 13 people, including 10 members of the Al -Azhar family. It was the bloodiest of the strikes.

Another blow to Muridke, a town about 25 miles from the Pakistani city of Lahore, hit a building complex that was previously used as the Lashkar-E-TAIBA headquarters, killing three people. But Pakistani officials said they seized the building in 2019 after they banned the front uniform for another offer.

It is said that four other sites are said to be small and related seminars in the past with armed groups, in Punjab and part of Pakistan from Kashmir.