All 3 Lashkar Terrorists Behind Pahalgam Attack Killed in Operation Mahadev, Confirms Amit Shah

Union Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday declared that three Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists involved in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack were killed on Monday in Dachigam near Srinagar after two months work of intelligence and security operation titled, Mahadev.

According to him, he said to Parliament that the three who killed 25 tourists and one pony operator in the Baisaran Valley are known as Suleiman, a Lashkar e Commander; Afghan and Jibran.

They were confirmed to be them by Parvaiz Jothar and Bashir Jothar who allegedly sheltered them and Shah confirmed.

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According to Indian reports, the weapons associated with the killings of the police in Pahalgam are one M9 carbine and two AK-47S whose ballistic analysis was done in the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Chandigarh as stated by Shah. “...security forces, the army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and Jammu and Kashmir police (J&K), as part of Operation Mahadev, eliminated the three terrorists Suleiman, Afghan, and Jibran involved in the Pahalgam terror attack. Their masters were killed in Operation Sindoor earlier,” Shah said, referring to India's response to the April 22 terror strike.

On May 7, nine terror bases belonging to Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were attacked by India and this spurred a four-day military exchange between the two countries.

Shah said Operation Mahadev commenced on May 22 after the Intelligence Bureau (IB) received some intelligence that there were three terrorists in Dachigam area.

“The IB and the army soldiers continuously worked on capturing signals of the ultra system [a Chinese encrypted communication system]. Finally, on July 22, the sensors established their exact location, and then the Army’s 4 Para, J&K police, and CRPF joined hands. They were finally killed yesterday [Monday],” Shah said.

“We sent human assets who had seen their faces, who identified their bodies and confirmed that they were the ones who shot innocent tourists in Baisaran Valley on April 22.”

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On Monday night, the rifles that were recovered of three terrorists were examined at Chandigarh forensic lab and at 4am early Tuesday morning the report came out to be positive.

According to Shah, the terrorists were found to possess two voter ID cards of Pakistani nationals and chocolate wraps manufactured in Pakistan. They were the guns of a western neighbour as he said.

According to Shah, 3,000 hours of questioning were done and 1,055 people have been questioned, which have been documented by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Bashir and Parvaiz had told the agency that on April 21, the terrorists visited their home and they had had food and tea together, packed some provisions with them and left home to go to Baisaran, Shah said. The terrorists were also identified by the mother of Bashir Jothar and Parvaiz Jothar.

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