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The woman said her parents and two younger siblings were innocent and did not know about her brother, Asif Sheikh’s involvement in the Pahalgam terror attack
The sister of a terrorist allegedly involved in Pahalgam attack speaks to the media in Jammu and Kashmir’s Tral. (Image: ANI/screengrab)
The sister of one of the terrorists allegedly involved in the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives, has said her brother is a “mujahideen”. She said their family home in Pulwama’s Tral was demolished and she had returned home from her in-laws’ place to find her parents and two younger sisters missing.
The woman told news agency ANI that she has two brothers — one is in jail and the other, now identified as Asif Sheikh, is a ‘mujahideen’. “…My one brother is in jail, the other brother is a ‘mujahideen’, and I also have two sisters. Yesterday, when I came here from my in-laws’ place, I did not find my parents and siblings at their home. Police had taken them all away,” she told ANI.
#WATCH | Tral, J&K | “My brother is a Mujahideen,” says the sister of a terrorist allegedly involved in Pahalgam attack whose house in Tral was demolished”…My one brother is in jail, the other brother is a ‘Mujahideen’, and I also have two sisters. Yesterday, when I came here… pic.twitter.com/4sMr6GM1V4
— ANI (@ANI) April 25, 2025
She said she and her family members are innocent and do not know anything about her brother’s involvement in the deadly attack. She alleged that the security forces have “destroyed” her house.
“While I was here, the security forces came and asked me to move to a neighbour’s house. I saw a man wearing a camouflage uniform placing an object like a bomb on top of the house. After that, the house was demolished…we are innocent. They have destroyed our house. We don’t know anything and have nothing to do with it,” she added.
The homes of three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, all believed to be involved in the Pahalgam attack, were destroyed on Friday. The first two — residences of Aadil Hussain Thokar and Asif Sheikh — were demolished on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, while one belonging to Ahsan Ahmad Sheikh went down on Friday evening.
Aadil Thokar, a key suspect, is from Guree village in Anantnag district’s Bijbehara while Asif Sheikh and Ahsan Sheikh are both from Pulwama. Their family members have claimed that they are not aware of their whereabouts.
(With PTI inputs)
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