Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday claimed that it “dismantled” the terrorist network and any effort to link the Pahalgam terror attack with the defunct Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) was against the reality.
The Foreign Office made the remarks in a statement, a day after the US Department of State on Thursday designated The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT, as a “foreign terrorist organisation” and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist for its involvement in the Pahalgam attack. Twenty-six people were killed in the April 22 attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
“Pakistan has effectively and comprehensively dismantled concerned outfits, arrested and prosecuted the leadership, and deradicalised its cadres,” the statement said. Stating that the investigation into the Pahalgam attack is “still inconclusive,” it said, “any linkage with LeT, a defunct organisation banned in Pakistan, belies ground realities”.
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the Pahalgam attack. India and Pakistan reached an understanding on May 10 to end the conflict after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes.
