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ISI Pawn Shahzad Bhatti's Trap: 3 Indian Youths Expose Terrorist's Recruitment Tactics.
- •Pakistani ISI terrorist Shahzad Bhatti used social media to lure Indian youth into anti-national activities and terror plots.
- •News18 India reveals how three youths from different states narrowly escaped Bhatti's trap, thanks to timely intervention by Indian security agencies.
- •Bhatti exploited platforms like Instagram, offering money, weapons, and support to push youth into target killings, grenade attacks, and anti-India propaganda.
- •A UPSC aspirant, a social media influencer, and an engineering dropout share their stories of how Bhatti attempted to recruit them for terror acts.
- •Indian agencies rescued these youths, counseled them, and brought them back into the mainstream, now urging others to avoid such dangerous traps.
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Shahzad Bhatti contacts vulnerable Indian youth primarily through platforms like Instagram reels and messages, tempting them with money, weapons, and false promises to push them into anti-national conspiracies. Security agencies revealed that he uses these online channels to groom recruits for criminal tasks such as target killings and grenade attacks.
Indian security agencies cracked down on the Pakistan-backed network by detaining hundreds of operatives across multiple states, imposing the UAPA on Shahzad Bhatti, and registering numerous cases. Simultaneously, agencies provided counseling and a second chance to reform for youths who fell into the trap but had not committed grave offenses.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Hindustan (TTH) is a front organization and banner used by Shahzad Bhatti's module to execute aggressive propaganda and graffiti campaigns in India. Recruits were paid small amounts, such as 120 rupees, to write TTH slogans at designated public locations as part of the syndicate's subversive activities.
