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New Delhi: The Lashkar-e-Taiba has released posters saying it will hold public prayers to honour two terrorists killed in Kashmir last week, defying commitments by the Pakistan government to rein in the jihadist group in return for the country being removed from a global sanctions watchlist..
The gathering is the first public event announced by the Lashkar since its chief and 26/11 organiser Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was convicted of terrorism financing two years ago...
Elections are scheduled to be held in Kashmir beginning on 7 May, and the Lashkars reemergence on the public stage is raising fears that terrorist violence could lead to a Pulwama-type crisis, a senior Indian intelligence official told ThePrint...
Lashkar terrorists Abdul Wahab, also known by the alias Abu Saifullah, and Sanam Jafar, were killed near Sopore in north Kashmir in a firefight with Indian forces, which began Thursday night...
Led by Hafiz Abdul Rauf a cleric sanctioned by the US government on terror-financing charges the Lashkar had also involved itself in flood-relief work last summer, as inspectors from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) prepared to visit the country...
