The National Investigation Agency’s chargesheet filed on December 15, 2025, in the Pahalgam terror attack case reads less like a one-off case file and more like a chapter in a decades-long dossier. Seven accused, including Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba/The Resistance Front operatives, stand charged with religion-based targeted killings that left 25 tourists and one local dead.
The 1,597-page document names Pakistani handler Sajid Jatt and three terrorists — Faisal Jatt alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran, and Hamza Afghani — who were killed in Operation Mahadev in Dachigam in July 2025. Two locals, Parvaiz Ahmad and Bashir Ahmad Jothad, were arrested for harbouring them.
The NIA’s probe under RC-02/2025/NIA/JMU traces the conspiracy directly to Pakistan, invoking charges under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Arms Act, and the UAPA, including “waging war against India.” The agency states that Pakistan “has been unabatedly sponsoring terrorism against India.”
