TRF is believed to be an offshoot of – or perhaps simply a front for – the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based armed group. That holds major implications for India’s response.
India is in mourning after 26 people – nearly all of them tourists – were killed on April 22 in a resort in picturesque Pahalgam. The massacre is considered to be the deadliest attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir since 2000.
The attack happened during peak tourist season as thousands flocked to the popular landscape of Pahalgam. Most of those killed were Indians, with the exception of one Nepali national. All the victims were men.
The Resistance Front (TRF) has claimed responsibility for the attack. A hitherto lesser-known armed group in the Kashmir region, TRF emerged in 2019 with the aim to fight for Kashmir’s secession from India.
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