India claims to have killed all suspects of Kashmir’s Pahalgam attack

Amit Shah, India’s home minister, claimed that three rebel-trained individuals who were abducted in Indian-administered Kashmir were to blame for the April 2014 tourist killings in Pahalgam, which resulted in a fierce military conflict with Pakistan.

The minister made the remarks on Tuesday, one day after the heavily armed suspects were killed in a joint operation by the military, paramilitary, and police on the outskirts of Srinagar, the country’s main city.

According to Shah, who was speaking in the area close to the Kashmiri town of Pahalgam, where 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, were shot dead on April 22 and who attacked in Baisaran were three terrorists who were all three killed, they were all reported to have been.

More than 70 people were killed in the four-day conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals in May when India accused Pakistan of backing the attackers, a charge Islamabad denied.

Shah claimed that all three of the three were citizens of Pakistan, and that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group with a presence in Pakistan, was its leader.

In a speech delivered in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, Shah stated that “Indian security agencies have detailed evidence of their involvement in the attack.”

The army said in a statement that the operation took place on Monday in Dachigam, which is about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Srinagar.

A security meeting immediately following the attack, according to Shah, was convened, and it was decided not to allow the attackers to leave the country and go back to Pakistan.

According to him, investigators relied on witness accounts and forensic evidence to establish that the rifles found on the men were the same ones that were used in the April attack.

According to Shah, it was established that these three rifles were used in the murder of our innocent civilians.

With the exception of one Nepalese man, all those killed in the April attack were listed as Indians. According to survivors, the attackers had ordered some of the men to recite the Muslim declaration of faith and separated the men from the women and children.

Initial responsibility for the attack was assumed by another armed group, The Resistance Front (TRF). However, the claim was refuted as the killings received more public support.

The US officially designated TRF as a “foreign terrorist organization” earlier this month.

Since their independence from British rule in 1947, Kashmir’s Muslim-majority neighbors have waged two wars and engaged in numerous conflicts to control the area.