Pahalgam bloodbath: Pakistani terrorist former para commando, says probe | India News

NEW DELHI: Hashim Musa, a Pakistani terrorist recognized behind the Pahalgam bloodbath, is a former para commando of Pakistan military’s particular forces, investigations into the phobia conspiracy have confirmed.
Sources instructed TOI that Musa, now a hardcore terrorist working with Pakistan-based LeT, was despatched by outfit masterminds to J&Ok to unleash terror assaults on non-locals in addition to safety forces.
“It is possible that he was loaned by Pakistan special forces, like Special Service Group (SSG), to LeT,” an officer of the safety institution right here stated in what additional underlines the nexus between jihadi outfits and Pakistan’s state actors.

Musa key perpetrator in Kashmir strikes: India

Para-commandos of the Pakistani particular drive, SSG, are highly-trained in unconventional warfare and concentrate on covert operations. The intensive and rigorous coaching routine focuses on bodily conditioning and psychological health, in addition to strategic pondering. SSG commandos are adept at dealing with subtle weapons in addition to in hand-to-hand fight, and have excessive navigation and survival expertise.
A senior officer stated Musa’s military background – confirmed throughout the questioning of 15 Kashmiri overground employees (OGWs) who’ve emerged as key suspects within the Pahalgam assault probe for facilitating the Pakistani assailants by arranging logistics and serving to in reconnaissance – is being seen as proof of ISI’s position within the Pahalgam terror assault, as additionally in earlier strikes in Kashmir.
The latter embody Oct 2024 terror assaults at Gagangir, Ganderbal, during which six non-locals and a physician had been killed, and at Buta Pathri, Baramulla, which left two military personnel & two military porters useless.
Musa has emerged because the widespread perpetrator in all three assaults. Junaid Ahmad Bhat and Arbaaz Mir, two different native terrorists educated in Pakistan, had been additionally concerned within the Gagangir and Buta Pathri assaults however had been neutralised in separate encounters by safety forces in Nov and Dec 2024.