By Afshain Afzal

The Indian National Investigation Agency officially took over the investigation of Baisaran mountaintop terrorist attack of 22 April 2025, after a gap of almost of five to six days. The investigation hints that the probe is being carried out with fixed mindset in an attempt to establish connection between Gagangeer, Gulmarg and Pahalgam attacks as well as other past incidents so that junks of Kashmiris’ linked with self-perceived networks provide security forces to establish reign of terror in Jammu and Kashmir.

Sufficient evidences have been collected so far and additional can also be added that it was Indian Northern Army Commander, Lieutenant General Suchendra Kumar and the Indian Military Intelligence operators who planned and got executed extra-constitutional Kashmiri Special Police Officials. Confirm reports reflect that he was briefed at Headquarter Srinagar after the incident, “… Everything went fine as expected while national and international media created full impact against Kashmiris Muslim and Pakistan leadership”.

There are clear indications from the interviews of witnesses that groups and names of those who were to be killed at Pahalgam were shared with killers/ terrorists for target-killings. Witnesses disclosed that Christians, Hindus and those Muslims who possessed sympathies for tourists were killed. Had the terrorists only focused on the Hindus, why Christians and Muslims were amongst those killed? It is on record that a person who got married on 16th April read Kalma Tayyiaba to prove that he was a Muslim but he was also killed. Multiple witnesses disclosed, “When the military came these terrorists without hesitation continued taking photographs”. This means military had links with these state sponsored killers/ terrorists.

Witnesses were complaining against the harsh, abusing and humiliating attitude of some of the tourists towards local Kashmiris. Some tourists while going up on ponies to Baisaran mountaintop told ‘Ponywallas’ in middle of journey to take them back and also cautioned other tourists that danger is ahead and they should refuse to go Baisaran mountaintop. Interviews telecast on the media as well as the contacted witnesses claimed that hours ahead of firing, Urdu speaking persons, Biharis and Rohingyas including Ms Aikta Chaudhry, who were probably Muslims but posed if they were Hindus, created a bad scene and contacted authorities and also posted photos of local Kashmiris at Baisaran.

Pahalgam Killings: The direction of shadows in each clip is different, showing AI generated or fake.

The prime witness, Rishi Bhatt’s Salfie-video was also examined by NIA but proved factitious. Rishi claims, “When I was on the Zipline, the Zipline operator said Allah o Akbar thrice and then the firing started." In an interview with NIA officials, he also claimed “I saw 5 to 6 people getting shot and when a man falling down from Zipline that was the moment, I realized something was wrong, I unlatched my Zipline rope, jumped down from about 15 feet, and started running with my wife and son to save our lives. It is strange that the video clips did not show if video captured from a height of 15 feet. More so the different direction of shadows of the trees and individuals on ground in the same video showed that the video is edited and captured at different timings as shown in the photo above.

The biased investigation can be realized from the fact that NIA has claimed that it has examined technical evidences and successfully established Hashim Musa alias Suleiman as a common link to these attacks. No doubt, all these attempts aims to carryout carnage of innocent Kashmiris to further intimidate and terrorize them so that they dare not to demand their right of self-determination to seek independence. The question arises how name of Hashim Musa got surfaced when all the terrorist operated in open, did not leave the area after an hour of firing and 28 killings and were also known to the military personnel, who arrived the crime scene hours after the incident.

Pahalgam terrorism will disturb international security; also giving license to Indian occupying forces carryout series of further genocide of Kashmiri Muslims to change the demography and settle non-Kashmiris while the Indian Army is also trying to takeover the business in Jammu and Kashmir. This state-sponsored terrorism where all security forces were withdrawn to allow unhindered killings aims to reach long-term objectives as it happened after Public School attack in Pakistan. Some of the deaths and injuries are fictitious but the killings of innocent people should not go unchecked. The analysis of each interview highlights many serious defects due to putting words into the mouths of the witnesses for hidden agenda. The Truth can still be reached that require an International inquiry under the UNO, where representative from India and Pakistan should be part of it.