TRF Echoes Pakistan Foreign Minister's Protest Of US Ban On Terror Outfit | Exclusive Details

Last Updated:July 26, 2025, 22:31 IST

This clearly exposes the synergy between Pakistan’s diplomatic machinery and its terror proxies, said sources

Financial trails tracked via hawala and crypto channels link TRF operations to Pakistan-based facilitators, confirming that the group is part of a hybrid warfare doctrine combining terror and propaganda, sources added. File pic

Hours after Pakistan’s foreign minister and deputy PM Ishaq Dar expressed disagreement with the United States’ ban on the TRF, the terror outfit issued a statement opposing the decision.

The Resistance Front justifies its armed resistance in Jammu and Kashmir as a lawful and necessary response to what it describes as the “unlawful Indian occupation".

The TRF claims that its designation as a terrorist organisation by the United States is unjust and influenced by Indian pressure on American institutions.

The group maintains it is a legitimate, local freedom movement fighting against the so-called “Indian occupation" of Jammu and Kashmir, rejecting the terrorist label.

It asserts that the US and other powers label Kashmiri groups as terrorists out of frustration.

TRF’s statement rejects the US decision, framing its struggle as a rightful liberation from an oppressive Indian regime.

Top intelligence sources reveal that the TRF is not an indigenous movement but a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba.

It is strategically created by Pakistan’s ISI to give jihadi terrorism in Kashmir a local resistance façade and bypass international scrutiny post-2019 abrogation of Article 370.

“The timing of the TRF statement, issued just hours after Ishaq Dar criticised the US designation, clearly exposes the synergy between Pakistan’s diplomatic machinery and its terror proxies, confirming state-sponsored narrative warfare," said a source.

The TRF has been involved in targeted killings of civilians, migrant workers, and minority communities in Kashmir.

This is evidenced by confessions, forensic recovery of weapons, and intercepted communications with handlers in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, said sources.

Financial trails tracked via hawala and crypto channels link TRF operations to Pakistan-based facilitators, confirming that the group is part of a hybrid warfare doctrine combining terror and propaganda, they added.

Manoj Gupta

Group Editor, Investigations & Security Affairs, Network18

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