Two Jaish terrorists, including a Pakistani commander of the group being investigated for his role in the February 14 CRPF bombing, and an Army major were among the seven people killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Monday, officials said. The slain terrorists were identified as Kamran, a Pakistani national and top commander of the Jaish, and Hilal Ahmad, a local recruited by the terror group, they said. "Kamran's role in the February 14 suicide bombing of a CRPF convoy was under the scanner of investigators," a senior police official said.<doc-sep>Brand Solutions An Insight into ETFs How they can help in wealth creation Reshape Tomorrow Tomorrow is different. Let's reshape it today TomorrowMakers Let's get smarter about money ET Campus Stars Hunt for the brightest engineers in India<doc-sep>Ghazi is also reportedly believed to be the mastermind behind the Pulwama terror attack and also is said to have trained the suicide bomber, Adil Dar. According to reports, Ghazi was sent to Kashmir by Masood Azhar to avenge the killings of his two nephews, Talah Rasheed and Usman, in 2017 and 2018 respectively in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. He is said to have infiltrated in Kashmir along with his two associates around mid-December last year.<doc-sep>Photo of Slain Terrorist Circulated by Indian Media is Made Using an App In the afternoon of February 18, news broke out that the mastermind of the Pulwama terror attack in which 44 CRPF personnel were killed, has been gunned down in an encounter. According to reports, Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Abdul Rasheed Ghazi alias Kamran was killed after a 12-hour long encounter with security forces. The news has been reported by several media organisations which have also carried a photograph purported to be of the slain JeM commander. The photograph used by India Today in the above report has also been featured by several other media organisations such as ABP News, Zee News, India TV, Outlook and The Economic Times, among others. The truth of the photograph Alt News was alerted about this photograph by a social media user who alleged that the face of the terrorist, Abdul Rashid Ghazi was morphed on the body of American pop legend Jon Bon Jovi! So @abpnewstv , @IndiaToday , @timesofindia all used a morphed picture of terrorist .. And they morphed the body of @jonbonjovi .. So patriotic .. … I shouldn't laugh .. But .. #ROFLMAO pic.twitter.com/QRKmT3cqqM — Shuvankar Mukherjee (@shuvankr) February 18, 2019 Alt News reverse searched the juxtaposed image in the above tweet and found a photograph of Jon Bon Jovi on Pinterest which matched with the photograph of Ghazi used by media houses. The similarities in both photos are stark- notice the left hand, with the watch and the walkie-talkie. Also, the shape of the right hand and the position of the baton and taser are identical. Alt News found several such photographs of this uniform featuring different individuals. On further probing, Alt News found an app on Amazon called Police Suit Photo Frame Maker. In this application, one of the templates features a uniform and shape identical to the photograph of Rashid, Bon Jovi and several others found online. Abdul Rashid Ghazi’s face was superimposed on the template, and it is rather strange that not a single media organisation checked the authenticity of the photograph before relaying it for mass consumption. An image created using a photo software application was used across the board by several reputed media outlets. (This article was originally published at Alt News.)<doc-sep>
Security forces gunned down the mastermind of the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF men in the wee hours of Monday. Ghazi Abdul Rasheed was among the two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists killed in the encounter, which claimed the lives of four army personnel, including a major. Kamran alias Ghazi Rasheed was captured by the Indian Army along with two other terrorists. A joint team of 55 Rashtriya Rifles, CRPF, and Special Operation Group launched a cordon and search operation early on Monday, after receiving inputs on terrorists taking refuge in the area. India intensified its operations to hunt down terrorists after the Pulwama IED attack on February 14; JeM had claimed responsibility for the attack. The 32-year-old, a Pakistani national, was a close and trusted aide of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar. He was an Afghan war veteran and an IED specialist and joined the terror group in 2008. Reportedly, Ghazi had trained Pulwama suicide bomber Adil Dar and was commanding all Jaish operations in India. Ghazi was trained by the Taliban in Afghanistan and would train Jaish recruits in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Intelligence agencies said Ghazi infiltrated into India through Kashmir along with two of his associates towards the end of last year. It is believed Masood Azhar sent him to Kashmir to avenge the death of his nephews — Talah Rasheed and Usman — killed in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Usman, a Jaish sniper, was killed in an encounter with the security forces in Tral last year. Intelligence sources added that Ghazi had a narrow escape in an encounter in Pulwama's Ratnipora village, days before the February 14 attack.