Lately, five journalists of local daily of Kashmir resigned after online threats issued to over a dozen of them, Agencies probing the matter have found that Turkey based terror operative Mukhtar Baba and six of his contacts in Jammu and Kashmir are suspected to be behind threats.

 

 

Pertains to mention here that several journalists resigned in Srinagar after terror outfit, The Resistance Front (TRF) an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba threatened them of dire consequences "for their traitorous" acts and "nexus with fascist Indian regime" An FIR was launched by the police and case was registered under UAPA.

 

 

Now as per intelligence dossier, initial assessment suggests that terrorist Mukhtar Baba is the mastermind" behind the threats.

 

 

Mukhtar Baba (55) used to work for various newspapers in Kashmir. He was a resident of Downtown Srinagar in the 1990s and is believed to have escaped to Turkey, it said. Baba, who often visits Pakistan, has emerged as a mastermind responsible for grooming youngsters in the Valley to join the TRF, the dossier said.

 

 

Baba has built a network of informers in the journalist community, and used their inputs to prepare a list of scribes to threaten, the dossier said. He is suspected to be in touch with six associates in the Valley, and two of them have been identified, it added.

 

 

According to the document, Mukhtar Baba was a member of the Hezbollah in the 90s but was thrown out unceremoniously after he was charged with selling AK-47s to rival terror outfits. He joined Masrat Alam in 2010 with a pivotal role in the 2010 summer agitation, it added.