Who is Sheikh Sajjad Gul, the mastermind behind Pahalgam terror attack, know his Karnataka and Kerala links
Sheikh Sajjad Gul, a 50-year-old Kashmiri and head of Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy The Resistance Front (TRF), has emerged as the mastermind of the cowardly attack, which claimed the lives of 26 people, mostly tourists, on April 22.
New Delhi: The connection between India and Pakistan touched a new low after Pakistan-backed terrorists attacked harmless vacationers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. Sheikh Sajjad Gul, a 50-twelve months-old Kashmiri and head of Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy The Resistance Front (TRF), has emerged because the mastermind of the cowardly assault, which claimed the lives of 26 of us, mostly vacationers, on April 22.
Holed up within the Cantonment metropolis of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, beneath the patronage of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Gul, who also goes by the alias of Sajjad Ahmed Sheikh, has been a planner of a desire of fear attacks, alongside with targeted killings between 2020 and 2024 in Central and South Kashmir, grenade attacks in Central Kashmir in 2023, ambush of J&K police personnel in Bijbehra in Anantnag, Gagangir, Z-Morh Tunnel assault in Ganderbal.
The NIA had designated him a terrorist in April 2022 and kept a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head. The true talked about that within the future of the investigation into the lethal April 22 Pahalgam assault, links and a few communications were traced relief to Gul. The TRF had claimed accountability for the assault.
The team of workers, beneath Gul’s instruction, had shot 25 vacationers at point-blank differ after asking their faith in Pahalgam on April 22. A neighborhood vacationer e book used to be also killed by the terrorists. Feeble by Pakistan’s external snooping agency ISI as a Kashmiri face of the local Punjabi-dominated Lashkar-e-Taiba, Sheikh used to be educated in Srinagar and did his MBA from Bangalore, later pivoting to a lab technician direction in Kerala. He returned to the Valley, where he opened a diagnostic lab and started providing logistical give a enhance to to the phobia team of workers.
One day of his work as an overground employee (OGW) of the phobia team of workers, Gul used to be caught by the Particular Cell of the Delhi police in 2002 from Nizamuddin Railway Space with 5 kilograms of RDX. It used to be published that he used to be conducting a recce and conspiring to behavior serial blasts within the nationwide capital, for which he used to be sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on August 7, 2003.
He moved to Pakistan after his release from detention heart in 2017, where the ISI chose him to e book a proxy of the LeT — The Resistance Front (TRF) — in Kashmir in 2019 to give it a facade of an indigenous fear circulate of Jammu and Kashmir.
The appearance of TRF used to be a strategy of the ISI within the aftermath of the Pulwama incident in February 2019, when Pakistan had come to the detrimental behold of the arena for sponsoring and harbouring fear outfits savor LeT and JeM.
His brother, an ex-physician in Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital, Srinagar, used to be also a terrorist within the Nineties who had migrated to Saudi Arabia and later to Pakistan, where he is now interesting with fear funding with fugitives in Gulf countries.
(With PTI Inputs)
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