Pakistani Identity of Pahalgam Attackers Confirmed with Govt-Issued Documents

Security agencies have gathered irrefutable evidence, including government-issued documents from Pakistan and biometric data, confirming that the three slain terrorists involved in the deadly Pahalgam attack were Pakistani nationals, officials said on Monday.

- NL CORRESPONDENT

The terrorists, identified as senior operatives of the proscribed Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT), were killed on July 28 in an encounter with security forces in the Dachigam forest on the outskirts of Srinagar during a counter-terror operation codenamed ‘Mahadev’. According to officials, the trio had been hiding in the Dachigam-Harwan forest belt since carrying out the April 22 attack in the Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam, which