Who Was Suleman Shah, The Mastermind Of The Pahalgam Assault?

Safety Forces killed three terrorists on July 28 in Jammu and Kashmir. All three terrorists had been concerned within the Pahalgam assault. Considered one of them was Suleman Shah. He was the mastermind of the Pahalgam assault, who plotted and executed the terrorist assault within the Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on 22 April 2025.

He was an professional in unconventional warfare and covert operations. He left the Pakistan Military and joined Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) beneath the management of Hafiz Saeed. He infiltrated into India by crossing the Line of Management (LoC) in 2022 and began finishing up terrorist actions in South Kashmir.

Suleman was despatched throughout the border by Lashkar-e-Taiba to strengthen terrorist actions in Kashmir and recruit new youth. He was an A-category terrorist, on whom the Jammu and Kashmir Police had positioned a bounty of Rs 20 lakh.

He infiltrated India in 2022, joined Lashkar-e-Taiba, and was concerned in a number of terror assaults, together with the Sonamarg tunnel assault and assaults in Ganderbal and Baramulla.

Suleman was additionally one of many masterminds of the fear assault in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley on 22 April 2025. The duty for the assault was initially claimed by Lashkar-e-Taiba’s proxy group, The Resistance Entrance (TRF), however was later denied when the scenario worsened.

Suleman was additionally concerned within the Sonamarg tunnel assault (2024), wherein six laborers and a physician had been killed, and the assault on safety forces in Baramulla, wherein 4 troopers had been martyred. Other than this, he additionally had a task within the assault on a military truck in Poonch in April 2023, wherein 5 troopers had been martyred.

Lastly, Suleman was killed together with two terrorists in a joint operation of safety forces beneath Operation Mahadev within the forests of Dachigam in Srinagar on 28 July.

In accordance with the data, after the encounter, 17 rifle grenades, an M4 carbine, two AK-47 rifles, and different weapons had been recovered from the terrorists’ hideout. The cartridges recovered from these weapons had been matched with the cartridges of the Pahalgam assault, which confirmed that these had been the identical terrorists who had shed the blood of harmless, unarmed individuals.

The killing of Suleman Shah is being thought of a serious setback for Lashkar-e-Taiba in Jammu and Kashmir.