India has announced a series of measures to demarize its links in Pakistan, one day after armed men killed 26 people in the tourist town of Pahalgam in the disputed region of cashmere.
Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vikram Misri, told a press conference on Wednesday that the cross -border bonds of the Kashmir attack administered by the Indians had been “highlighted” at a special meeting of the security firm, after which it was decided to act against Pakistan.
He said that the main passage to the land border between the two countries would be closed with an immediate effect and that New Delhi suspend a water treaty which makes it possible to share the waters of the industrial river system between the two countries.
He said Pakistani nationals would be forbidden to go to India as part of the Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Visa (Saarc) Visa (SAARC) Visa (SAARC) program, and that Pakistanis using visas have 48 hours to leave the country.
New Delhi’s Defense of the New Delhi’s Defense of the Pakistani High Commissioner were declared a non-Grata no one and asked to leave, said Misri, adding that the overall force of the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad will be reduced to 30 compared to 55.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Thursday morning a meeting of the National Security Committee to respond to the Declaration of the Indian government, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan published on X.
An little known group, the resistance front (TRF) claimed the responsibility of the attack in a message on social networks, in which it expressed dissatisfaction that more than 85,000 “foreigners” had been settled in the region, stimulating what it called “demographic change”.
The dead included 25 Indians and a Nepalese national, police said, and at least 17 other people were injured.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan said it was “concerned about the loss of the lives of tourists” to cashmere administered by the Indians. “We present our condolences to the relatives of the deceased and wish the injured a rapid recovery,” the ministry spokesman said in a statement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interrupted his two -day visit to Saudi Arabia and returned to the capital on Wednesday. He denounced the attack as an “odious act” and promised that the attackers “be brought to justice”.
“Their evil agenda will never succeed. Our determination to fight terrorism is unshakable and it will become even stronger,” he said in an article on X.
The Indian Minister of Defense, Rajnath Singh, said: “The officials and behind such an act will soon hear our response, noisy and Claire.”
“We will not only reach the people who led the attack. We will also contact those who planned it behind the scenes of our field,” said Singh in a speech in the capital, New Delhi.
Tourists flee
The cashmere has seen a series of fatal attacks, especially against migrant workers in the Indian states, since New Delhi put an end to the semi-autonomous status of the region in 2019 and radically slowed down dissent, civil liberties and media freedoms.
Tuesday’s attack was a setback for the government of Modi, which has repeatedly made allegations of “normality” in cashmere since the semi-autonomous status of the region was revoked. New Delhi vigorously pushed tourism and the region attracted millions of visitors to its Himalayas and decorated barges.
Ajai Sahni, Executive Director of South Asia Portal Terrorism Portal, a platform that follows and analyzes armed attacks in South Asia, said that “zero activism in cashmere is an impossible objective to achieve, at least in the absence of a political solution within the State”.
“The narrative of normality creates a situation where groups are encouraged to design attacks,” said Sahni. “There is no normality in cashmere.”
After the attack, panicked tourists began to leave the cashmere. Monojit Debnath, from the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, said that cashmere was undoubtedly beautiful, but his family no longer felt safe.
“We are tourists and we have to think about the security we have here for us,” said Debnath to the press agency Press Trust of India when he left Srinagar, the main city of the region, with his family.
TRF said that “targeted individuals were not ordinary tourists”. “”[Instead]They were linked and affiliated to Indian security agencies, “he said in a separate declaration, adding that she would intensify her activities in the region.
The Indian government did not comment on the complaint.
