New Delhi – In their first public comments from 26 people were killed And many other wounded in an attack on Tuesday by sustained militants based in Pakistan in Kashmir controlled by India, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said: “India will identify, track and punish all terrorists and their land.
On Wednesday, India announced that I was making a key agreement to share the river water in response to the attack.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India said Wednesday night that the Indo Water Treaty “will remain suspended with an immediate effect, until Pakistan is credible and irrevocular that reduces its support for cross -border terrorism.” The suspension of the World Bank Negotiation Treaty of 1960 would mean that India would stop the water supply of the Indo River and its tributaries, the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Samboj-to Pakistan, impacting millions of people in the country of condition.
The decisions were tasks of the Security Committee of the Indian Cabinet, the country’s superior defense decision -making body headed by the Prime Minister.
“Terrorism will not be unpunished. Everything can be done to ensure that justice is done. The entire nation is firm in this resolution,” said Modi on Thursday.
The brutal attack that took place on Tuesday in the picturesque PAHALGAM area of Cashmiro controlled by India left 26 people dead 25 tourists, and 17 other wounds, when the suspended militants opened fire, according to the Indian authorities. Most of the victims were Hindus.
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The shameless attack, one of the sausages in the history of Kashmir, in one of its most popular tourist places, dotted with meadows and surrounded by glaciers, has shocked India and legs condemned by leaders around the world.
The Indian security forces extended by Kashmir a day after the attack, while the police, the army and the paramilitary forces continued their human hunt for the perpetrators. Many companies were closed on Wednesday to protest the brutal attack against civilians, crossing a call from religious groups of Kashmir and political parties.
A less known militant group called Resistance Front, the responsibility of the attack on social networks was attributed. CBS News cannot independently verify the claim. India’s media reported that the group was backed by Pakistan’s Lashkar-E-Tiba (Let).
Pakistani citizens asked to leave, canceled visas
In addition to the suspension of the Water Treaty, India also ordered all Pakistani citizens currently in the country to be within 48 hours and gave the military advisors a week in the high Pakistani commission in New Delhi to leave India. India said he will also remember his own military advisors to Islamabad.
“These publications in the respective high commissions are considered annulled,” said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India. The Ministry said that both high commissions will have in favor of the current 55 to 30.
India has also decided to close the Integrated Post Attari check, a key road link between the two countries.
“Those who have crossed with valid endorsements can return through that route before May 1, 2025,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Kashmir Conflict
Kashmira is in full claimed by both India and Pakistan, but each nation has controlled its own part of the mountainous region for decades.
The picturesque Himalayan region has been regularly beaten by militant violence since an armed anti -india insurgency begged in 1989. The slow conflict has gained tens of thousands of lives approximately more than three decades.
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Tuesday’s attack in the popular tourist beauty place occurred when tourism in the Cashmiro region was collecting. He Last important attack It happened in June 2024, when nine people were killed and 33 killed when militants attacked a bus that transported Hindu pilgrims.
Eight pilgrims were killed and 19 flavored in a similar attack in the region in 2017, when the militants attacked a bus that took them back to the famous temple of the Amarnath cave in southern Kashmir.
Generalized condemnation
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, promised his support for India after the mortal attack.
“Deeply disturbing news of Kashmira,” Trump wrote on social networks. “The United States remains firm with India against terrorism.”
The attack occurred when the American vice president JD Vance, along with his wife Usha and his children, paid a Visit a personal part To India. Vance with early week with the leader of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Usha Vance is a practicing Hindu whose parents are from India.
“Firmly condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. Condolences to those who have lost their loved ones. I pray for the injured to recover as soon as possible,” said the prime minister in a position on social networks on Tuesday. “Those behind this atrocious act will be taken before justice … They are not saved! Your evil agenda will never succeed. Our resolution to combat terrorism is unwavering and will become stronger.”
Russia leaders, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, France, Italy and the EAA have also expressed condemnation.