Lashkar-e-Toiba's (LeT's) innovation to communicate freely has been giving sleepless nights to security forces in Kashmir Valley these days. Terrorists have found a new way to communicate with each other so that their messages cannot be intercepted by security agencies.

To bypass the call interception technologies used by Indian security agencies, the LeT's technology wing has developed at least two phone applications for its cadres....

The security agencies were oblivious of the new advancement made by the LeT until they found the application Ibotel installed on a phone of a terrorist. Later, the same application was found installed in several phones seized from some arrested terrorists or recovered from encounter sites. The security agencies have been trying hard to break into this secure mode of communication developed by the militants....