The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, detailing Pakistan’s role in last year’s terror attack in Pahalgam’s Baisaran meadow, in which 25 tourists and a pony operator were killed. The attack triggered a four-day armed conflict between India and Pakistan.
The federal anti-terror probe agency said Saeed, a designated terrorist, was named in the supplementary charge sheet, filed in a Jammu court, in his individual capacity for the conspiracy and also as the chief of LeT and its proxy outfit, The Resistance Front (TRF).
The agency said in a statement that the charge sheet was filed in continuation of the original 1,597-page charge sheet submitted on December 15 last year. “…provides details of Pakistan’s conspiracy, Hafiz Saeed’s role, and supporting evidence collected by NIA in the case through meticulous scientific investigation and on-ground examination,” the agency said.
Saeed is India’s most-wanted terrorist. He has been behind assaults, including the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. The NIA has charged him under sections related to terrorism of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. “NIA has also invoked the penal section against the accused for waging war against India and hatching a conspiracy from across the border in the charge sheet,” the agency said.
The NIA said the investigations are continuing to unravel the complete conspiracy by Pakistan, which has been actively sponsoring terrorism on Indian soil from across the border.
In its first charge sheet, the NIA identified the three Pakistani terrorists who killed the tourists—Faisal Jatt alias Suleman, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran Bhai, and Hamza Afghani, who was killed during Operation Mahadev in July 2025. It named TRF leader Sajid Saifullah Jatt, aka Langda, and two locals, Bashir Ahmad Jothatd and Parvaiz Ahmad, who were arrested last June.
