The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has cited Sajit Jatt’s role in the plot and the location of associated Telegram accounts to link the Pahalgam attack to Pakistan.
In the 1,597-page charge sheet, the NIA said the Pahalgam attack was planned, directed, and controlled from Pakistan. It accused The Resistance Front (TRF), a front of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), of planning and executing the attack.
The NIA named Jatt as the architect of the attack. It said he guided the three terrorists —Faisal Jatt alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran, and Abu Hamza— and arranged logistics for the attack.
The charge sheet said Jatt coordinated terrorist movement, set targets, arranged drops inside Jammu and Kashmir using drones, and supplied weapons and Pakistan-origin phones to the terrorists, according to CNN-News18.
The NIA said the hierarchical command structure, cross-border encrypted coordination, weapons logistics, and handler-driven tasking leave no doubt the attack was a Pakistan-sponsored terrorist operation executed by LeT/TRF.
The NIA also said the terrorists involved in the attack received bomb-making guidance from a pro-TRF Telegram channel.
