By: Express Web Desk New Delhi | Updated: July 29, 2025 12:56 IST 3 min readAmit Shah addressing the Lok Sabha during Operation Sindoor debate (Sansad TV)Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Lok Sabha that the three slain terrorists in Operation Mahadev on Monday were those involved in the Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baisaran Valley on April 22.“Security forces went to great extent to establish that identity of terrorists was same as those responsible for Pahalgam attack,” Shah said on the second day of the debate on Operation Sindoor in Lok Sabha. The second week of the Monson session began with the Lower House taking up a 16-hour discussion on India’s attack on Pakistan’s terror infrastructure, in response to the Pahalgam attack.Operation Mahadev was carried out jointly by Army, CRPF, and J-K Police on Monday. In a post on X at 1:32 pm, the Army’s Chinar Corps wrote: “Op Mahadev update: Three terrorists have been neutralised in an intense firefight. Operation continues.”In his address, the Home Minister slammed the opposition, especially the Congress, as “those seeking proof of terrorists being from Pakistan”. He particularly hit out at former home minister P Chidambaram who accused the Centre for giving “a clean chit to Pakistan”.In an interview to The Quint, uploaded on Saturday (July 26), Chidambaram said the Pahalgam attackers “for all we know could be homegrown terrorists” and “why do you assume that they came from Pakistan”? He also said that “there is no evidence” that the terrorists came from Pakistan.Naming the slain terrorists, the Home Minister said one of the three killed was Suleiman Shah, a ‘Category A’ Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander involved in the Pahalgam attack. He was also involved in the killing of seven employees of a firm constructing the Z-Morh tunnel on the Srinagar-Sonamarg highway on October 20 last year.The other two were identified as Afghan and Jibran. Both Grade A terrorists, Shah added.Story continues below this adLast month, The Indian Express reported that the National Investigation Agency had concluded that all three Pahalgam attackers were from Pakistan. This was a departure from what was previously believed about the identities of the attackers. Two days after the attack, the J&K police had released three sketches — Pakistan nationals Hashim Musa and Ali Bhai alias Talha, and Kashmir local Adil Hussain Thoker.With PTI inputsStay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd