Pahalgam: A massive search operation was launched in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua on Friday after a woman claimed to have seen four suspected terrorists who killed 26 people in the resort town of Pahalgam earlier this week. Search and combing operations were underway in Pulwama and Baramulla. In Pattan area of Baramulla, the searches were being done in connection with alleged anti-India activities by the banned Jammu and Kashmir National Front (JKNF) outfit.
As part of ongoing efforts to curb unlawful activities and dismantle the terror ecosystem, Baramulla Police conducted a search operation at the residence of Ghulam Mohammad Ganaie in Pattan on Friday. The search, conducted in the presence of an executive magistrate, led to the recovery of incriminating material linked to the JKNF. All recovered items were seized and documented as evidence in the ongoing investigation.
26 people – all men, mostly tourists – were killed by terrorists in the Baisaran meadow in the upper reaches of Pahalgam in one of the worst terror attacks on civilians in Kashmir in the past many years. The Resistance Front (TRF), a terrorist group linked to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed’s Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack.
India and Pakistan announced major diplomatic measures and downgraded their already strained ties, including the closure of the Attari-Wagah border, the expulsion of their respective attaches from the High Commissions and revoking visas of their nationals.
