Pakistan’s involvement in the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack has been established by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its chargesheet filed in December 2025.
The anti-terror agency, in its findings detailed in the chargesheet, has said that the attack in Pahalgam’s Baisaran valley, in which 25 tourists and a pony operator were killed after three terrorists opened fire on them on April 22, 2025, was completely planned and controlled from Pakistan.
The handler of the three terrorists, Saifullah, alias Sajid Jatt, alias Langda, an LeT terrorist, and its proxy outfit, The Resistance Front (TRF), operated from Lahore in Pakistan and directly issued instructions to the attackers in Pahalgam.
Saifullah, among India’s most wanted terrorists, is believed to be operating from within Pakistan, the NIA said in the chargesheet.
Apart from Sajid Jatt, who has been named as an accused in the 1,597-page chargesheet filed before a special court in Jammu on December 15, 2025, the NIA has also named the three Pakistani terrorists who were killed by Indian security forces during Operation Mahadev at Dachigam in Srinagar in July 2025, weeks after the attack.
The three terrorists have been identified as Faisal Jatt, alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir, alias Jibran, and Hamza Afghani. The agency has also referred to what it described as Pakistan’s “false flag” narrative in connection with the attack. The TRF had claimed responsibility through a Telegram channel, ‘Kashmir Fight’.
