Linkages with other terror organisations
A few Kashmiri women are used by Lashkar for the limited purpose of transferring weapons, money and messages.
In Srinagar, Al Mansurian operates along with the Lashkar, while south Kashmir is Al Badar territory.
In north Kashmir, the Hizbul Mujahideen shares space with Lashkar.
An intelligence officer who has prepared dossiers on many Lashkar members claims that each battalion in Kashmir has around 60 to 70 terrorists.
In the last few years Baluchis, Afghans and Pakistanis from the North West Frontier Province have joined Lashkar battalions. Most area and district commanders have 'a lot of money and the best women' and have many hideouts in the Kashmir valley.
The Lashkar is alive and thriving in Kashmir because Hafiz Saeed remains untouched by the Pakistani government. The more funds he gets from Pakistan and the ISI, the more resourceful Zia-ur Rehman Lakhvi becomes in his task of spreading terror in India.
Image: A grenade hurled at an Indian army patrol, being defused by a bomb disposal squad at Srinagar's Lal Chowk, the hub of business activity in the city.
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