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Saturday, August 23, 2025
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Topic: Lashkar-e-Taiba

Pahalgam terror attack: NIA takes over investigation from J&K police

The central anti-terror agency registered a fresh FIR Saturday and launched its probe into the terror attack which claimed 26 lives.

LeT offshoot TRF retracts Pahalgam attack claim, blames ‘hacking’ for earlier statement

TRF denial over Pahalgam attack comes four days after initial claim and just hours after Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said LeT was extinct and denied having heard of TRF.

Been doing US’s dirty work for 30 yrs, Washington once hosted terrorists—Pakistan defence minister

Khawaja Asif also accuses India of 'staging' the Pahalgam attack & warns that any aggression from New Delhi will be met with a 'measured' but firm response.

Pahalgam attack: Houses of 2 local terrorists destroyed by security forces, over a dozen ops underway

Adil Hussain Thoker of Bijbehara & Aasif Sheikh of Tral are among the 7 LeT terrorists believed to be involved in the killings in Pahalgam Tuesday.

Report on Pahalgam shows there was ‘real-time intel’ sharing between terrorists & ‘Pakistani handlers’

The report, based on investigations, assessments, and intercepted communications, mentions that digital footprints were traced to safe houses in Muzaffarabad & Karachi.

A Pahalgam pony wallah stood up to the terrorists. They sprayed him with bullets

28-year-old Syed Adil Hussain Shah was killed while trying to help a woman who lost her father in Pahalgam. He was the eldest of 6 siblings & married 2 years ago.

25 years ago, Lashkar-e-Taiba killed 35 Sikhs in Kashmir. This is how they got away with it

Thirty-five Sikhs were gunned down in cold blood in the year 2000. Political leadership promised to mete out justice, but botched investigations left critical questions unanswered.

Who is Adil Thoker? Security forces zero in on local man as ‘key executioner’ of Pahalgam attack

An FIR has been filed under relevant sections of the BNS, Arms Act & UAPA. Eyewitness accounts and the condition of bodies suggest the attackers 'got long training'.

Pakistan media on Pahalgam: ‘India claim false, Islamabad only backs Kashmir self-determination struggle’

Condemning the attack, Pakistan’s media has accused the Indian government of using it to divert attention from its failures, alleging the Modi govt is turning it into a 'communal drama'.

4 LeT terrorists, including 2 local men with body cams, carried out Pahalgam killings

The attack was not meant to target any group of officers from any intel agency, it is learnt. Security forces have launched a massive manhunt for the group of terrorists.

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New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

India and France to jointly develop and manufacture 120 kN engine for homegrown AMCA

The new engine, set to be developed over the next 10 years, will power the second tranche of Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft. First set will be equipped with GE 414 engines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?