The spark of the last conflict between India and Pakistan, the most expansive struggle between the two countries in decades, was a terrorist attack against civilians in Kashmir last month.
The Indian government had been projecting the calm on its side of the disputed Kashmir region. A group of militants managed to pierce that image. They left the forest in a picturesque place of picnic and killed 26 men. Men, almost all Hindu, were pointed out by their religion, and many of them were killed in front of their wives and families, agree to witness accounts.
A little known group called Resistance Front responsibility. The Indian government said the group was a front for a broader terrorist apparatus that has operated in Pakistan. Pakistan has rejected those statements.
This is what we know about the groups that India said he had attacked in his military attacks.
What are the two main groups that go to India?
Lashkar-E-Taiba, which was founded in the 1980s, has suspended or planning of the long leg or Pakistan planning some of the terrorist attacks of sausages in India. It was added to a list of United Nations sanctions in 2005.
One of the most fatal attacks that the OrchestĂł Group was a 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, which is more than 160 people. Almost a gunman boxes reached hostages of boats and heroes in an important hotel for days. One of the attackers was captured alive, and much of the account of the ties of the attack with Pakistan came from their confessions. He was sentenced in India in 2010 and executed in 2012.
Pakistan has confirmed the links of Lashkar-E-Taiba with past violence in India, but says that the group was prohibited and with a band of dishes a long time ago. The founder of the group, Hafiz Saeed, is free despite letters to detect letters, and Indian officials say that the group continues their activities through coverage organizations and ramifications, such as the Resistance Front.
Jaish-E-Mohammed, the second group that Indian officials said they had attacked in their attacks, has had an important hand in the militancy in Kashmir. But their activities have not been limited to the region.
The founder of the group, Masood Azhar, was imprisoned in the 1990s by the militant activity in Kashmira, but was launched as part of a hostage agreement in 1999. The tok andian alilines kidnappers fly to Kandahar, Afghanistan, and demanded the release of Mr. Azhar and other militants for returning to release the more than 150 passes that were in celebration.
Jaish-E-Mohammad is accused of multiple mortal attacks in Kashmir, including bombing in 2019 of an Indian military convoy that led the two countries to a letter conflict. He was also behind a deadly attack against the Indian Parliament in 2001.
What were the objectives of the strikes recently in India?
India’s military forces said they had reached nine locations in Pakistan on Wednesday, including facilities associated with the two terrorist outfits.
The two parties had very different statements about how many people were killed and the scope of any damage to the infrastructure of the groups. These statements could not be verified independently.
Indian officials, informants of the legislators, said they had killed some “100 terrorists” in their attacks. The Pakistani army put the number of deaths at 31.
In the field, it was clear that many of the attacks had hit the facilities associated with the two terrorist groups, although it was not clear if the facilities were current or old.
In Bahawalpur, in Punjab, the most populous province of Pakistan, a strike in a complex associated with Mr. Azhar killed 13 people, including 10 members or Mr. Azhar’s family. It was the deadliest of strikes.
Another strike in Muridke, a city about 25 miles from the Pakistani city in Lahore, hit a complex of buildings previously used as the Lashkar-E-Taiba headquarters, killing three people. But Pakistani officials said they had tasks on the building in 2019 after having forbidden another outfit of the Lashkar front.
It was said that four other attacked sites were small seminars and mosques linked in the past with the militant groups, in Punjab and in the part administered by Pakistan of Kashmir.
