MUZAFFARABAD
\nAzad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) police claimed on Thursday that they had arrested a suspected agent of India\u2019s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in Rawalakot, who had been blackmailed into working for the foreign intelligence agency. According to AJK Inspector General of Police (IGP) Liaqat Ali Malik, one suspect had been arrested who had allegedly been blackmailed into working for RAW.
\nHis handler, whom Malik said used a Facebook account with an address in Lahore, blackmailed him by initially assigning \u201csmall tasks\u201d \u2014 beginning with commonplace activities and later involving geotagging, sharing coordinates, and recording videos of \u201csensitive\u201d sites, including military installations, schools, bridges and other government buildings in AJK and elsewhere in Pakistan.
\n\u201cThis time, the AJK police worked with sensitive institutions to take pre-emptive action and exposed this whole network,\u201d Malik said, adding that the enemy forces had \u201ctrapped\u201d innocent young people while causing damage to life and property.
\nAccording to the police, the method of blackmail involves the use of a fake account on social media to lure in targets, followed by the installation of malicious applications to record chats, intimate videos and pictures which are then used for blackmail purposes.
\nWhile the tasks start out at a small scale, they build up to more sensitive operations culminating in information gathering on sensitive military sites as well as civilian institutions that may be targeted, the IGP added.He commended all police personnel and forces and paid tribute to them, saying that the police would go to \u201cany length\u201d for \u201cthis holy land\u201d and would end the \u201cenemy\u2019s impure intentions\u201d.
\nPrime Mini\u00adster Shehbaz Sharif has previously accu\u00adsed India of using proxies to revive terrorism in Pakistan after its humiliating defeat in last year\u2019s military conflict, and warned that peace in the region would remain elusive unless New Delhi abandoned its \u201caggressive, expansionist and hegemonic ambitions\u201d.
\nIn December of last year, the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed it had arrested 12 suspected militants allegedly working for RAW in intelligence-based operations conducted in Lahore, Faisalabad, and Bahawalpur.
\nIn August, the CTD claimed that it had unearthed a RAW network which used Pakistanis and a separatist outfit in Sindh to carry out the targeted killing of a well-known soc\u00adial worker in Matli, Badin district. \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUZAFFARABAD Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) police claimed on Thursday that they had arrested a suspected agent of India\u2019s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in Rawalakot, who had been blackmailed into working for the foreign intelligence agency. According to AJK Inspector General of Police (IGP) Liaqat Ali Malik, one suspect had been arrested who had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-542167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n