Mission successful

THE Pahalgam attackers, who managed to evade Indian security forces for over three months, have finally been eliminated. The success of Operation Mahadev, which involved the Army, CRPF and the J&K Police, has buoyed the Modi government amid a parliamentary debate on the terror attack and Operation Sindoor. Two of the three slain terrorists belonged to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), including an “A-category commander”. This should suffice to silence the doubters — both in India and abroad — who suspected that home-grown terrorists perpetrated the April 22 massacre. Pakistan has been in denial mode from the outset, but India now has concrete evidence to up the ante against the incorrigible sponsor of terror.