DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 22 PAGES `7.00 (`8 RAIPUR, `15 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 ‘OP SINDOOR KILLED TERRORISTS’ BOSSES, OP MAHADEV KILLED TERRORISTS’ DISCUSSION ON OPERATION SINDOOR IN LOK SABHA world India Pahalgamterroristskilled,clearproof Nostop Opleader askedonly to (Sindoor)... ofPakistanhand,ShahtellsLokSabha 3 countries backed Pak: PM Says ballistic report, witnesses helped identify 3 dead as Pahalgam attackers THE THREE KILLED ASAD REHMAN NEW DELHI, JULY 29 SPEAKING FOR the government on the second day of the special discussiononOperationSindoor in the Lok Sabha Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in the House that those behind the Pahalgam terror attack had been killed. The three terrorists gunned down in the Dachigam forest area on the outskirts of Srinagar under ‘Operation Mahadev’ on Monday were the same as those involvedintheterroristattackon April 22, Shah said, adding that forensic proof as well as witness identification of the men had confirmed the same. Identifying SULEIMAN NEW DELHI, JULY 29 WITH JUST two days left for the August 1 deadline set by the DonaldTrumpadministrationto wrap up agreements with its trading partners, the American Presidentsaidheisplanningtar- ARUN SHARMA, AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA & DEEPTIMAN TIWARY JAMMU, NEW DELHI, JULY 29 Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. PTI thethreeasSuleimanaliasFaisal Jatt, Afghan and Jibran, he said they had all come from Pakistan. The three were killed in ‘OperationMahadev’carriedout CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Challenge in US trade deal: Tackling Trump, ensuring tariff edge ANIL SASI Inside the op: 2 signals 17 days apart, 3-month hunt, Mahadev peak iffs at “somewhere in the 15-20 per cent range” for “the rest of the world”. That would mean a significantincreaseonthe10per cent“baseline”tariff thatapplies to most trading partners now. Given how talks have proceeded, an interim deal still seems distant. But three things CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 IT WAS the detection of a signal emitted from a communication device used by the Pahalgam attackers on Saturday — the second time in the last 17 days — that led the Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police to them on Mulnar Peak near Lidwas Meadow of Mahadev Peak, a strategically important location in the Dachigam forests on the JIBRAN AFGHAN CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Manipur district election officers begin outreach on SIR, meet parties INSIDE ECONOMIST, HOUSE SUKRITA BARUAH OF LORDS PEER GUWAHATI, JULY 29 MEGHNAD DESAI DIES WILL STEP IN IF MASS EVEN AS Manipur remains underPresident’sRule,districtelecEXCLUSION: SC ON tion officers have begun holding BIHAR REVISION OF meetings with local representativesof politicalpartiestodiscuss ROLLS PAGES 17, 9 the Special Intensive Revision SCAMS AND LADDERS Fell prey to unsound scams Followed sound practices ! 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While these meetings have already beenheldinatleastfiveof the16 districtsinthestate,noticesconveningsuchmeetingshavebeen issuedintheremainingdistricts. On Monday, representatives of the BJP, Congress and the Kuki People’s Alliance attended one CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ‘Vance said Pak was planning big attack... I said will answer bullets with cannonballs’ VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, JULY 29 WITH THE Opposition flagging USPresidentDonaldTrump'srepeated claims of mediating the May 10 ceasefire between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister NarendraModitoldLokSabhaon Tuesday that “no leader in the world asked India to stop its militaryoperation(Sindoor)”.Hesaid he had told US Vice-President J D Vance on May 9 that if Pakistan firedbullets,Indiawouldrespond with cannonballs. Replying to an over 16-hour discussion in Lok Sabha on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, Modi said it CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during the discussion on Tuesday. PTI ‘PM should have courage to tell Trump he is lying’: Rahul questions ceasefire MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, JULY 29 STEPPINGUPtheOpposition’sattack on the government over US PresidentDonaldTrump’sclaims thathebrokeredtheceasefirebetween India and Pakistan after OperationSindoor,RahulGandhi Tuesday asked Prime Minister NarendraModitoshow“courage” anddeclareTrumpaliarif hewas not speaking the truth. “Donald Trump has said 29 times that he brought about the ceasefire. If he is lying… let the PrimeMinistersayheislying.Ifhe has the courage of Indira Gandhi, let him say here that Donald PAGE 7 Trumpisaliar.Thatyou(Trump) did not make us cease fire and thatwedidnotloseanyplanes… Evenif hehas50%of thecourage Indira Gandhi had, let him say it here,” Gandhi said. “Have the couragetotellhim(Trump)…‘To hell with you, you can’t stop any CONTINUED ON PAGE 2