Pulwama Terror Attack: NIA names Masood Azhar and his brother as plotters in the chargesheet

Pulwama Terror Attack: NIA names Masood Azhar and his brother as plotters in the chargesheet

Pakistan-based terror mastermind Masood Azhar and his brother Rauf Asghar have been named as the key conspirators behind the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in a charge-sheet filed today by the National Investigation Agency.

The charge-sheet names 19 accused and details how the planning and execution of the attack in Kashmir was done from Pakistan.

According to the NIA Six of the terrorists named by the NIA were eliminated, seven have been arrested and five are still missing of which three are Pakistanis.

Over 40 soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a security convoy at Pulwama on February 14 last year.