New Delhi [India], February 10: The 9th edition of The Radio Festival (TRF), India's flagship annual event focused on strengthening the public and community audio ecosystem, was held today at the India International Centre, in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting a
Junaid Qureshi, Director of the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), has received a direct death threat from The Resistance Front (TRF), a terror outfit identified as an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, even as he asserted that intimidation will not silence his voice against terr
Following the National Investigation Agency's submission of a chargesheet regarding the Pahalgam attack, Sanjay Dwivedi, the father of Shubham Dwivedi, and Aishanya Dwivedi, the wife of the victim, expressed their approval of this development on Tuesday.
Pakistani handler terrorist Sajid Jatt has been named with six others, including banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its proxy The Resistance Front (TRF) terrorist organisations, in the National Investigation Agency's Pahalgam terror attack chargesheet filed on Monday.
Mani Shankar Aiyar has reportedly criticised the government's global outreach following 'Operation Sindoor' and said that "none of the 33 countries that Shashi Tharoor and his team visited blamed Pakistan for the Pahalgam terror attack."
Jaishankar, while speaking at the Monsoon Session in the Rajya Sabha said that in the last decade, Indian diplomacy with regards to terrorism has seen a huge leap.
The Pakistan-based TRF is the group behind the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. This is also the first time that TRF has been mentioned in any UN document.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar welcomed the move, calling it a strong step in the global fight against terrorism. He said the action reflected growing India-US counter-terrorism cooperation.
In a statement, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that TRF, which is a known proxy of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, under US anti-terrorism laws, had claimed responsibility for the Pahalagam terror attack.
Founded in 2019, shortly after the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir (J-K), TRF is a part of broader Pakistan's ISI-backed disinformation and hybrid warfare and targets civilians, minorities, tourists and security forces, according to sources.
This comes after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a statement, acknowledged that TRF under US anti-terrorism laws, had claimed responsibility for the Pahalagam terror attack, and in light of this, it accorded the group the status of FTO and SDGT.