NEW DELHI: India filed charges on Monday against the founder of a group in connection with a deadly attack on tourists in IIOJK last year.
The April 2025 attack near the tourist resort of Pahalgam killed 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, sparking an intense four-day conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
New Delhi has accused Pakistan of backing the attack, claims Islamabad has repeatedly denied.
India’s National Investigation Agency said it had charged Hafiz Saeed in “his individual capacity and also as the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit and its active proxy organisation, The Resistance Front”.
Saeed was charged with “waging war against India and hatching a conspiracy from across the border”, according to a statement from the agency.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to request for comment, but Islamabad has previously called for an independent inquiry, saying there was no Pakistani involvement in the attack.