30/07/2025
NEW DELHI, Jul 29: Witness identifications, a midnight flight to facilitate forensic ballistics of weapons recovered from the three terrorists killed in Dachigam, Srinagar, and an early morning confirmation from scientists that the trio carried out the Pahalgam attack -- all this happened in less than 24 hours.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday gave a blow-by-blow account in the Lok Sabha of 'Operation Mahadev' undertaken by the security forces and culminated on Monday with the killing of the three terrorists.
Indian agencies have "ample" evidence to say that these were Pakistani terrorists affiliated to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Shah told the House.
He said 'Operation Mahadev' began on May 22 as part of a security plan that was drawn a day after the terrorists gunned down 26 civilians in the April 22 attack in the scenic Baisaran valley of Pahalgam.
The first decision taken in the security review meeting held on April 23 was to ensure that the "brutal killers" shou...