A radiant wave of appealing, young Kashmir militants, who wear modern outfits and take selfies have given sleepless nights to the security agencies. Two such militants of Hizbul Mujahideen hit the posh colonies of Srinagar and took their photos.
Photos of 27-year-old, Wasim Malla and 25-year-old Zakir Bhat, who apparently surveyed Srinagar recently, sent terrible flap to the Jammu and Kashmir police.
The new faces of Kashmiri militancy, Bhat holds a Bachelors degree in Technology while Malla is a Bachelor of Arts student. Both are from well-to-do families, Malla is son of an orchard owner and Bhat, son of a senior government engineer. Malla hails from South Kashmir’s Shopian and Bhat from Tral.
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The police have started an investigation into the “open presence of militants in the urban pockets”.
“We are trying to identify the location and know their designs,” said a counter-insurgency cop.
As per a report of The Hindu, a top counter-insurgency cop said that 22-year-old Burhan Wani, a young Hizb commander from south Kashmir’s Tral area, has succeeded in gaining support and infusing young blood, of around 35 boys, into the outfit in south Kashmir, to make it the number one outfit in the State, leaving behind Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Malla, aka Inam-ul-Haq with Jamaat-e-Islami links, was first arrested in 2010 in an improvised explosive device case and was released after six months.
After two years of inactivity he became an active militant in 2012. Malla is considered the face behind killing of three cops in Shopian on April 6, this year.
Motivated by the 2010 street uprising, Bhat was, 22 when he joined the Hizb in 2013. He is on the trot with other young militants working under the patronage of Burhan Wani.
Wani is sharply devising social sites to reach out to the youth. He has uploaded several videos, warning locals to refrain from “anti-movement” activities and stressing on “following the true Islamic path.”
Wani has flooded the social sites with selfies and group photos, forcing the police to bring down several Facebook accounts to stop its circulation.