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Bank History and Terror Investigations

Monday, June 1, 2026
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Bank History and Terror Investigations

A bank that has history with terror investigations.

This whole thing is coming out of the ongoing probe by the NIA and the Jammu and Kashmir Police.


The connection to the first phone is where it gets murky.

But the logistics trail led somewhere else. Investigation records pointed to Faysal Bank . The delivery address listed for the consignment was just the official address of the bank itself: “St/02, Faysal House, Main Branch, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan.”

The bank, Faysal Bank , seems to have financed this import through a letter of credit. That’s just how big shipments move. Investigators are speculating that the phone used by the attackers might have been pulled out of that consignment before it ever reached Lashkar-e-Taiba .

The chargesheet noted that the documents showed delivery to the bank, which financed the import. The phone itself, they suggest, was removed and eventually ended up with the LeT.

Officials said that the phone apparently sat unused from 2021 right up until the Pahalgam attack.


Now, there’s the second device. The Redmi Note 12 . That one came from a different route. It was imported by Air Link Communications Ltd, based in Lahore. Again, the investigation suggested that phone was also off and unused until the time of the attack.

The communication side of things is strange too. They couldn't pull any actual communication records from either phone. Why? Because the attackers reportedly used long-range radio technology. Not mobile networks, not the internet.


But the phones themselves still told a story. Forensic examination pulled out photos and maps. Images of Baisaran Meadows and the surrounding areas in Pahalgam. One picture showed a tent set up on March 30, 2025. Weeks before everything went down. It looked like they pitched it somewhere high up, with a stove nearby. That gave them a kind of advantage over the security forces moving around.


It’s important to remember the bank angle. Faysal Bank doesn't have direct evidence linking it to the Pahalgam massacre. But the bank has surfaced in older terror investigations.

Back in the 2007 New York Times report, lawsuits after 9/11 showed that groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lajnat-al-Dawa , an organization based in Kuwait linked to Al-Qaeda, had accounts at Faysal Bank . Lawyers for the bank denied any real connection, saying accounts were frozen when those entities were banned.

Even older stuff. A 2002 report in Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, which the South Asia Terrorism Portal later used, mentioned Faysal Bank among banks where proscribed organizations allegedly kept accounts.

It’s a long chain. A phone, a shipment, a bank financing it, and then a history of alleged links to extremism. It just feels messy.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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