Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday informed Parliament that the three militants responsible for the April 22 attack on pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam have been killed in a military operation in Srinagar.
Addressing the Monsoon Session, Shah said the joint counterterrorism effort, code-named Operation Mahadev, was carried out by the Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police, and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
The militants, identified as Suliman, Afgan, and Jibran, were all foreign nationals from Pakistan and listed as A-category terrorists. Shah revealed that the security forces recovered Pakistani voter cards and Pakistan-manufactured chocolates from the site, further confirming their identities and origins.
“Suliman, a senior commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, was directly involved in the April 22 Pahalgam attack and the earlier Gagangeer assault,” the Home Minister said, citing concrete evidence gathered by security agencies.
The Pahalgam attack had claimed the lives of 26 people, including several pilgrims and a local resident, and triggered tensions along the India-Pakistan border, briefly escalating into a military standoff.
