Overview

• On July 28, Indian forces killed three Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives—Suleman Shah, Abu Hamza and Yasir—in Operation Mahadev in the Dachigam-Harwan forest following the April 22 Pahalgam massacre.
• On July 29, Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented a parliamentary dossier featuring Pakistani voter ID cards, NADRA biometric records and GPS waypoints recovered from the militants’ belongings.
• Forensic analysis including ballistics matches and DNA profiling linked seized AK-103 rifles and blood evidence at the Baisaran site to the slain attackers.
• Investigators traced the militants’ infiltration route across the Line of Control near Gurez in May 2022 and secured confessions from local facilitators Parvaiz and Bashir Ahmad Jothar.
• The tense disruption of Habib Tahir’s funeral in PoK on July 30 by armed LeT figures highlights alleged state-level proxy backing and escalates diplomatic strain.