The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed new evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 25 tourists and one pony operator last year. The agency has filed a charge sheet detailing the role of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its proxy The Resistance Front (TRF) in planning and executing the attack.
According to the charge sheet, the attack was planned by LeT/TRF terrorist Sajid Saiffullah Jatt, aka Langda, who shared the co-ordinates of the Baisaran meadow with the attackers. The three terrorists involved in the attack sat outside the meadow and had lunch before launching their attack, and indulged in celebratory firing after it.
The NIA has named seven accused, including Sajid Jatt, based in Pakistan's Kasur, and three attackers - Faisal Jatt alias Suleman, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran Bhai, and Hamza Afghani - who were killed in a gunfight with security forces on July 28, 2025. The agency has charged them with murder and waging war against India, and relevant sections of the Arms Act and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The charge sheet reveals that Sajjid Jatt shared the co-ordinates of the meadow with the three attackers on April 15, and data retrieved from two phones recovered from the terrorists revealed "chats with Sajid Jatt giving directions to them ... and screen shots of the Alpine Quest app showing co-ordinates of locations near Baisaran Park".
The NIA has also cited the testimony of a protected witness who saw Jothatd signalling three individuals near Ahmad's dhok and later going inside. The agency has said that the investigation has "conclusively established that the Pahalgam (Baisaran) terror attack was planned, directed, and controlled from Pakistan".
The NIA has also linked the Pahalgam attack to a previous attack on October 20, 2024, when two unidentified terrorists entered the camp of APCO, a construction company engaged in the Z-Morh tunnel project at Jagangeer in Ganderbal district, killing seven APCO employees. One of the terrorists was later killed and identified as Junaid Ahmad Bhat, and a GoPro camera was recovered from his mobile.
The agency has said that it is still investigating the terror attack and is awaiting response from some countries to uncover the financial trail related to the drone dropping of cash, narco and weapons on the behest of LeT/TRF and Sajid Jatt. Besides, it is trying to uncover the digital trail of networks used by the terrorists belonging to LeT/TRF, identify overground workers (collaborators) in touch with Sajid Jatt, and links between the attackers and terrorist organisations such as Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Al Qaeda and its affiliates, Hamas and other global terror groups.
