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'When you butcher civilians... you get justice': US House foreign affairs panel on TRF terror tag
The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs has strongly backed the designation of The Resistance Front (TRF), a Pakistan-backed proxy of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a global terrorist group, following its role in the recent deadly attack in Pahalgam, in which the group's terrorists killed 26 innocent people, mostly tourists.
The committee said the move delivers a clear message saying, 'those responsible for the massacre of civilians will be held accountable'.
Last week, the US officially labelled TRF as both a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
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'President Trump calls it like it is. The Resistance Front is a foreign terrorist organisation and deserves the designation,' the Committee, chaired by Representative Brian Mast, said in a post on X.
'When you butcher civilians, you don't get a pass—you get justice. It was a terrorist attack—simple and straightforward,' the panel said.
The Committee also criticised The New York Times over its April 22 headline on the Pahalgam massacre, which described the attackers as 'militants.' Taking issue with the terminology, the Committee reposted the article with 'militants' crossed out and replaced by 'terrorists' in bold red letters, calling the NYT's language 'removed from reality.'
Pakistan has long used groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed as part of its so-called policy of 'bleeding India with a thousand cuts,' since it cannot win a direct war against India. These groups are trained and funded by the Pakistani state. In recent years, to avoid international sanctions, groups like LeT have created proxy outfits such as TRF to carry out terror attacks inside India.
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