New Delhi, July 18 -- The United States Department of State on Thursday designated The Resistance Front (TRF), a front group of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the group behind the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).

Founded in 2019, shortly after the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir (J-K), TRF is a part of broader Pakistan's ISI-backed disinformation and hybrid warfare and targets civilians, minorities, tourists and security forces, according to sources.

Sources said that the outfit employs ex-SSG commandos (Hashim Musa) of the Pakistan Army as part of its tactics to launch terror attacks.

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