The investigators have also corroborated the testimonies of the witness and the harbourers, successfully identifying the terrorists, the sources said, adding, one of the three has been identified as Hashim Musa, a former Pakistan army regular. Musa is also suspected to be the mastermind behind the Sonmarg Z-Modh tunnel attack which resulted in the deaths of six labourers and a doctor.“The other two have no previous records and appear to have infiltrated recently for the Pahalgam attack,” an intelligence official said.Agencies have also found no prior records for the harbourers, Parvaiz Ahmed and Bashir Ahmad and suspect that this was a deliberate strategy by Pakistan state actors to create a new module with minimal involvement of local terrorists, known as Over Ground Workers. They believe that this was done to maintain secrecy.Earlier it was believed that there were three to five terrorists, who carried out the attack, but so far, the NIA has identified three LeT terrorists.
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