Pahalgam Terrorists Still Trapped In Kashmir, Scouted 3 Other Sites Before Attack, Say Reports

Pahalgam Terror Attack: Days after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the investigation into the Pahalgam terror assault case, media studies bringing up the probe company resources claimed that the terrorists at the back of the heinous assault stay energetic and hidden in south Kashmir.

Meanwhile, media studies bringing up senior officers additionally steered that the perpetrators of the assault, which claimed the lives of no less than 26 other people and left a number of others injured, have been found in Baisaran Valley two days ahead of the assault. The studies additionally claimed that the disclosure used to be made all through the interrogation of one of the vital arrested Over Ground Workers (OGWs) in reference to the assault.

There is credible enter suggesting that extra terrorists would possibly nonetheless be hiding within the area, in step with the studies. They additional said that all through the assault in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley, there have been suspicions of extra terrorists provide keeping up a distance, most likely to supply quilt hearth in case safety forces answered unexpectedly. The terrorists reached Pahalgam on April 15 and performed reconnaissance of no less than 4 places. The places come with the picturesque Baisaran Valley.

The different 3 doable goals, Aru Valley, the native amusement park, and Betaab Valley, have been additionally underneath surveillance by way of the terrorists. According to the studies, tight safety preparations in those zones deterred the terrorists from executing the assault there. Meanwhile, NIA Director General Sadanand Date on Thursday arrived at Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam because the company started its probe into the topic.

Earlier on Sunday, the nationwide probe company took over the Pahalgam terror assault case from Jammu and Kashmir Police and started its investigation into the fatal assault that resulted within the killing of 26 vacationers, resources advised information company ANI.

The central anti-terror company officially registered a recent FIR overdue Saturday following an order issued from the Counter Terrorism and Counter Radicalisation (CTCR) department of the Ministry of Home Affairs taking into consideration the gravity of the case, as Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba’s proxy, the Resistance Front (TRF), has claimed duty for the assault.

The NIA took over the case 5 days after the incident and 4 days after its group visited the assault website and began supporting the Jammu and Kashmir Police in probing what is thought of as the deadliest attack on civilians within the area in nearly 20 years.

Official resources aware of the advance advised ANI that “the NIA has formally taken over the case from the Jammu and Kashmir Police and stated its investigation.” The group of the probe company is predicted to habits an intensive evaluate of the assault website, gather forensic proof, and lend a hand in figuring out the ones liable for the carnage. The NIA’s transfer comes amid intelligence businesses compiling a listing of 14 native terrorists actively working within the Union Territory. 

These folks, elderly between 20 and 40 years, are actively assisting overseas terrorists from Pakistan by way of offering logistical and ground-level beef up, ANI reported, bringing up resources. The recognized operatives are reportedly affiliated with 3 primary Pakistan-backed terror outfits: Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). Among them, 3 are related to Hizbul Mujahideen, 8 with LeT, and 3 with JeM.

ANI resources published the names of those folks as Adil Rehman Dentoo (21), Asif Ahmed Sheikh (28), Ahsan Ahmed Sheikh (23), Haris Nazir (20), Aamir Nazir Wani (20), Yawar Ahmed Bhat, Asif Ahmed Khanday (24), Naseer Ahmed Wani (21), Shahid Ahmed Kutay (27), Aamir Ahmed Dar, Adnan Safi Dar, Zubair Ahmed Wani (39), Haroon Rashid Ganai (32), and Zakir Ahmed Ganie (29). The identity of those native terror aides comes as businesses accentuate efforts to dismantle the beef up networks facilitating cross-border terrorism.

Security forces have introduced coordinated operations throughout South Kashmir, specifically in Anantnag and Pulwama districts, the place lots of the indexed people are believed to be working. Senior officers point out that those names are a part of a bigger intelligence file getting used to preempt additional assaults and disrupt terror logistics within the Valley.

(With ANI Inputs)