Overview

• Counter Intelligence Kashmir carried out simultaneous searches at ten locations in Ganderbal, Budgam, Pulwama and Srinagar to disrupt Jaish-e-Mohammed sleeper cells.
• The operation focused on a recruitment module led by JeM commander Abdullah Ghazi, also known as Shaukat Ali.
• Investigators neutralized a Pakistan-based cyber recruitment cell that used encrypted apps to radicalize Kashmiri youth.
• Officials seized electronic devices and tracked cryptocurrency transactions under UAPA provisions to trace cross-border terror financing.
• These raids build on intensified counterterror operations since the April Pahalgam attack and involve coordination among J&K Police, the SIA, NIA and the Army.