July 19
A New video of more than 25 Militants in Army fatigues displaying assault rifles filmed at an unknown location in Kashmir valley is doing rounds on social media.
In this one-and-fifty Second video, around 26 militants could be seen posing for the camera with their assault weapons, mostly AK-47 rifles one by one in a line approaching the camera.
In 2017 April, a similar type of video had appeared over the social networking in which more than 30 Militants had posed in a similar fashion, most of them were killed the last year including Saddam Padder, Sheikh Irfan, Waseem Ahmed and others.
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The Video that has gone viral over Social networking is being widely shared around whatsapp and other social networking platforms which has been lately declared as a worrying trend by Indian Security agencies and called as “Online Jihad.”Militancy is glorified on Social Media, which of course is a concern for them.
As Local Militancy grows in Kashmir, the Government Forces are keen to stop the Militant recruitment, the top officials in Indian Security agencies have been asking people to shun the path of violence. Recently a meeting was also held in South Kashmir to discuss the possible ways to tackle the growing Militant recruitment.
Regarding this latest video, An official told The Kashmiriyat they were checking the veracity of the video and also trying to locate the area in which the video was filmed.
The trend of uploading videos and pictures by militants on social networking sites, including Facebook and Whatsapp, was set by slain Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) commander Burhan Wani whose death in an encounter with security forces on July 8, triggered massive clashes that left over 100 civilians dead and over thousands injured.