Pahalgam attack: Security forces nab 2 terror associates in J&K, another terrorist’s house destroyed in Kulgam
Indian security force personnel patrol on the banks of Dal Lake, following a suspected militant attack near south Kashmir's Pahalgam, in Srinagar April 25, 2025. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Security forces arrested two terror associates from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam during the early hours of Saturday. The development comes days after the gruesome Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 persons were killed.
According to reports, based on intelligence inputs, security forces nabbed the associates from Thokerpora in Kulgam. Further details are yet to be ascertained. Meanwhile, a house in Kulgam’s Matalhama village, allegedly related to a terrorist, was destroyed.
Meanwhile, the houses of two terrorists allegedly involved in the Pahalgam terror attack were destroyed on Friday. According to officials, the houses got destroyed when explosives allegedly stored there went off. As per reports, security forces conducted searches at the house of two Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) terrorists – Aadil Hussain Thokar and Asif Sheikh, in Bijbehara and Tral respectively, on Friday. Explosives were found at the premises during the search operation and the houses were damaged in the explosions. According to officials, Thokar is a key accused in the Pahalgam terror attack while Sheikh was involved in the conspiracy that led to the attack.
The development comes a day after Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi visited Srinagar and assessed security situation in the region in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. General Dwivedi also attended a security review meeting chaired by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday.
Lieutenant Governor Sinha on Friday urged the Army chief to take effective measures to bring those responsible for the Pahalgam terror attack to justice and also to intensify efforts to crush the infrastructure of terrorism and its ecosystem in Jammu and Kashmir. "Every perpetrator and supporter of the Pahalgam terror attack, whatever his location or affiliation, must be hunted and they must pay the heavy price for the cowardly and dastardly act against our citizens," Sinha told the top Army officials in the meeting.
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