Investigations into the Pahalgam attack have traced one of the two cellphones used by the terrorists to a consignment imported into Pakistan in 2021, financed by a Karachi-based bank that has found itself in the crosshairs of terror probes in the past.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had its task cut out in the probe into the Pahalgam terror attack. The remoteness of the location and the absence of evidence such as CCTV footage added to the complexity of the case.It was only after examination of more than 1,113 witnesses, including more than 500 inhabitants of nearby ‘dhoks’ (hutments of nomadic herders) that the first vital piece of information emerged.