J&K Police says that the threat posters against mobile operators carrying the name 'Lashkar-e-Islam' were actually the handiwork of Hizbul Mujahideen. (File Photo, PTI)

Mobile phone services have been severely affected in Jammu and Kashmir after terror threat to telecom operators. Counter terror operations have been badly hit in the Valley as telecom companies have shutdown several of mobile towers due to threat from a terror group

According to reports, several posters with the name of an unknown terror group - Lashkar-e-Islam - were found in north Kashmir town of Sopore. The posters warned telecom operators of dire consequences if they continue operation in the region.

J-K Police says that the threat posters against mobile operators carrying the name 'Lashkar-e-Islam' were actually the handiwork of Hizbul Mujahideen. The special operation group of police and the army is jointly investigating the matter.

There has been a mysterious rise in terror attacks targeting mobile towers and other mobile phone establishments in the region in the recent past. Several telecom employees have also been targeted lately.

Two people have been killed in the last six days as militants carried out four attacks since Saturday targeting those associated with telecom sector.

On Monday, militants shot dead an employee of a BSNL franchisee and injured two others in Sopore. A day later, father of a sarpanch, who had a mobile transmission tower installed inside his residential compound, was shot dead by gunmen in the town.