'Terror Can Never Succeed': Farooq Abdullah After Amit Shah Says Pahalgam Attackers Killed In J&K
Last Updated: July 29, 2025, 21:54 IST
Former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah | File Image/PTI
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah responded to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's announcement in Lok Sabha, where he said three terrorists involved in the Pahalgam terror attack were killed in J&K on Monday.
'If they were truly the same terrorists, then this is good, they have been given a lesson that terror can never succeed," Abdullah was quoted as saying by The Indian Express. 'I have not seen them, I do not know who they are. Only those who have seen them (the terrorists), can identify them."
This came after Amit Shah announced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that Suleiman Shah alias Hashim Musa, and two others – identified as Jibran and Hamza Afghani – were killed in the Dachigam encounter in Srinagar under 'Operation Mahadev' on Monday.
'In the freezing heights, our Army and IB officers kept moving through the terrain to intercept their signals. On July 22, their presence in the area was finally confirmed. The Army, CRPF, and the Jammu and Kashmir Police jointly carried out a coordinated operation to surround them," Amit Shah said.
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Shah revealed that the very rifles recovered from three terrorists killed in the recent Dachigam encounter were the same weapons used in the brutal Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 civilians dead. He cited forensic testing data from the cartridge casings recovered from the Pahalgam attack.
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'The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had already arrested those who had provided shelter to the terrorists. When the terrorists' bodies were brought to Srinagar, those arrested were made to identify them, and they confirmed the identities of all three," he said in the Lok Sabha.
After the Pahalgam attack, security forces were instructed not to allow terrorists responsible for the dastardly act to leave the country. Describing the Pahalgam attack as barbaric, Shah said innocent civilians were brutally killed in front of their families after being asked about their religion and were murdered with extreme cruelty. Aveek Banerjee
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