NEW DELHI: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Monday mentioned it has gathered substantial physique of proof concerning the identities of three Pakistani terrorists concerned within the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault based mostly on testimonies from witnesses, video footages, technical proof and even the sketches earlier launched by Jammu and Kashmir Police.
It, nonetheless, refused to call the three Pakistani terrorists saying their identities and different particulars shall be shared at an “applicable time”.
The company added that media reviews or social media posts concerning the identifies and sketches of terrorists are “speculative” and “subsequently of deceptive nature”.
Two Pahalgam residents, Parvaiz Ahmad Jothar and Bashir Ahmad Jothar, who’re accused of harbouring the Pakistani attackers and offering them with meals, have been remanded in NIA custody for 5 days.
“The NIA has gathered a considerable physique of proof concerning the identities of the terrorists. This consists of eyewitness accounts from victims, video footages, technical proof, and the sketches launched by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. All this proof is being fastidiously analysed and NIA has not reached any conclusions at this stage,” mentioned the NIA in a press release on Monday.
“The NIA assures that the investigation is being carried out with the best requirements of professionalism, and all features of the fear assault are being totally examined. The identities and additional particulars of the terrorists shall be made public at an applicable time,” it added.
“It’s reiterated that, as said within the official press launch dated 22 June 2025, two accused individuals have been arrested in reference to the assault. Throughout their interrogation, they’ve disclosed particulars concerning the identities of the three armed terrorists concerned,” the assertion mentioned.
On Sunday, the company mentioned Parvaiz and Bashir knowingly harboured the three armed terrorists at a seasonal dhok (hut) at Hill Park earlier than the assault. “The 2 males had supplied meals, shelter and logistical assist to the terrorists who selectively killed the vacationers on the idea of their non secular identification,” it mentioned on Sunday.
The anti-terror company additionally mentioned that the three terrorists concerned within the assault have been Pakistani nationals affiliated to the proscribed terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The Resistance Entrance, a proxy group for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba organisation, had claimed accountability for the assault. Indian businesses say the group is a entrance utilized by Pakistan to keep away from worldwide sanctions.
As first reported by HT on April 24, intelligence businesses traced the assault’s digital communications to protected homes in Muzaffarabad and Karachi, establishing Pakistani involvement in what officers described as much like the management room-operated 2008 Mumbai assaults.
India responded with Operation Sindoor on Might 7, bombing 9 terrorist camps throughout Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in pre-dawn strikes that killed at the least 100 terrorists. The operation sparked 4 days of cross-border preventing involving fighter jets, missiles and artillery.
