From BBM to Threema: How messaging apps fuel J&K terror networks

The Blackberry Messenger (BBM) application has again surfaced on the terror network in Jammu and Kashmir, with the interrogation of a key Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist indicating the use of several applications, including some banned ones, to communicate with other members, officials said on Sunday.

An LeT module, tasked with setting up bases outside Jammu and Kashmir, was busted by the Srinagar police early last month with the arrest of Abdullah alias Abu Hureira, a resident of Kasur in Pakistan’s Punjab, along with another Pakistani terrorist, Mohammed Usman Jatt, and several Overground Workers (OGWs) in Kashmir.