Srinagar: Media reports show that the National Bureau of Investigation (NIA) found evidence that the deadly terrorist attack in Baisaran Meadow in the Pahalgam Valley was planned by Pakistan-based Lashkar-ee-Taiba (LET), a day after the attack, which showed that the National Bureau of Investigation (NIA) revealed evidence that the initiative and instructions of detectives (ISI) from the ruler of the ISI ISI Indional (Isi) in neighboring countries were planned in Lashkar-ee-taiba (LET) in Pakistan. Law enforcement agencies were sent to Jamu prison on Saturday at a barbecue “terrorist colleagues” Nissar Ahmed and Mushtaq Hussein.
The duo was arrested by Nia in September 2023 on charges involving terrorists involved in terrorist attacks in January of that year.
[On the evening of January 1, 2023, two heavily armed militants had fired automatic weapons to target three houses of Hindus at Upper Dhangri, leaving four persons dead and six others including two women injured. Next morning, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) kept in a jute sack and left by them inside one of these houses went off killing two children and injuring five other residents. One of the injured civilians died in a Jammu hospital later, taking the death toll to seven]Ahmed and Hussein are currently in the prison of Kot Balwal in Chamu, and according to the NIA, “a logistical support is provided to terrorists targeting innocent civilians in Upper dhangri and sheltered in a hiding place for more than two months, built on Pakistani orders”.
The NIA uses it as part of its active interrogation of suspects to establish a connection between the perpetrators of the Pahalgam massacre and potential groups or individuals involved. Under the order of the Ministry of the Interior (MHA), the NIA officially took over the investigation incident on April 27. Sources said the NIA team arrived in Baisaran on April 23 and has been camping at the scene of the terrorist attack since then. The agency is said to have found important potential clients, and interrogation links these incidents to a larger terrorist network.
According to some media reports, the investigation revealed operational details, including sneaking into J&K from Pakistan from Pakistan around April 15 and carrying out the attack under ISI directive.
NIA Director-General Sadanand Day visited Baisaran on Thursday, and he spent about three hours investigating the attack. He was accompanied by senior NIA officials, including Inspector General Vijay Sakhare and Deputy Inspector General Santosh Kumar Meena, whose visits focused on reviewing ongoing investigations, examining forensic evidence and reconstructing the sequence of incidents with eyewitness accounts.
The NIA team challenged witnesses, including local travel agencies, Pony Valas, zip code operators, restaurants and cafe owners and staff, as well as others, as well as survivors of the horrible attacks, including victims’ families in Maharashtra, Odsha and West Bengal.
In a statement in New Delhi on April 27, the NIA said its team was camping in Baisaran and supervised by IG, DIG and SP, and was checking witnesses: “They saw the terrifying attack and then saw the terrifying attack on the serene and picturesque Baisaran Valley.” It added: “Witnesses are being questioned in subtle details to piece together a series of events, which led to one of the worst terrorist attacks in Kashmir.”
Meanwhile, some news organizations, citing “known officials” that in advance of the April 22 terrorist attack, intelligence agencies marked the potential targets of tourists in hotels in the suburb of Srinagar on foothills island in the Zabalwan area.
According to these reports, this has prompted an increasing security presence in these areas, with senior police officers camping in Srinagar to oversee combing operations around Dachigam, Nishat and neighboring areas. The agencies said the areas had increased patrols due to terrorist attacks on a construction site in Gangir near the Sonamag resort, where seven people, including doctors, were killed in October last year, adding that despite two weeks of operations by security forces, a large number of searches were conducted during the period, when terrorist operations were carried out, and no 24-hour operations were carried out within the scope of the terrorist operations. Visitors in the Pahalgam area killed 26 of them.
They further stated that there was input that the terrorists wanted to do this evil design during a visit to Narendra Modi earlier last month to mark the first train from Katra to Srinagar. “Absolutely, Pakistan is not happy with the upcoming railway connection, aiming to connect the Kashmir Valley to the rest of the country.”
However, they said the Prime Minister's visit was postponed until April 19 as unfavorable weather forecasts predicted high-speed winds in the Katra area.
Officials made it clear that while weather conditions are the only reason for the delay, a fresh inauguration date is expected to be announced soon.
