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Security Agencies Uncover Pakistan-Linked ‘Bedroom Jihadis’ Network in Jammu and Kashmir

Blockings of social media accounts followed by a local arrest mark months of investigation linking inflammatory online campaigns to Pakistan-based terror handlers

After years of fighting armed terrorists, security agencies have been facing this hidden enemy in which these new-age jihadis use computers and smartphones, an official was quoted as saying.
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Overview

  • Investigators traced dozens of fake profiles on X and encrypted chat groups to Pakistan-based terror sympathisers engaged in coordinated propaganda targeting Jammu and Kashmir.
  • The multi-week probe involved analysing thousands of posts, comments and private messages to establish direct links between online actors and overseas handlers.
  • Authorities suspended numerous accounts after uncovering attempts to leak personal data of Kashmiri Pandit beneficiaries under orders from across the border.
  • Srinagar police defused sectarian tensions during Muharram by swiftly countering a provocative social media post identified by the investigation.
  • Former J&K Police chief Kuldeep Khoda warns that digital influence operations have become the primary front for efforts to destabilise communal harmony in the region.