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TopicPahalgam terror attack

Topic: Pahalgam terror attack

On 22 April, 2025, terrorists killed 25 Indians—24 tourists and a Kashmiri local—and 1 Nepalese tourist at Baisaran meadows in Pahalgam before fleeing the tourist spot. Eyewitness accounts indicate victims were singled out on the basis of religion, shot at close range in front of their families.

At the time of the attack, PM Modi was in Saudi Arabia on an official visit and US Vice President JD Vance was visiting India. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) offshoot The Resistance Front (TRF) claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Cabinet Committee of Security (CCS) chaired by PM Modi met the day after the attack and in a statement highlighted a potential link to Pakistan, saying “cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out”.

As Op Sindoor targets its bases, a look at LeT’s terror hierarchy, from Hafiz Saeed to Sajid Gul

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On ground in Jammu & Kashmir, the TRF, a frontal unit of the Pakistan-based LeT, is headed by Sajid Gul, who identifies himself as Saifullah Khalid from time to time, it is learnt.

Pakistan NSA briefs US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after India carries out Operation Sindoor

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Discussion focused on regional stability, according to reports. Rubio had also spoken to the Indian NSA following the calibrated attack on terror infrastructure in Pakistan.

Pakistan declares India’s Operation Sindoor as ‘act of war’, says response underway

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India's 'reckless behaviour' had brought the two nuclear-armed neighbours dangerously close to a wider conflict, it adds.

Indian missiles strike 9 terror targets in Pakistan, PoK in ‘Operation Sindoor’, Bahawalpur hit

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No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted & actions have been focused, measured & non-escalatory in nature, defence ministry says in a statement. Pakistan vows to respond.

Indian missiles hit 9 terror targets in Pakistan, PoK in ‘Operation Sindoor’. Bahawalpur, Muridke hit

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Pakistani media reports quoted DG ISPR as saying that retaliatory strikes on ground and by air are underway. Bahawalpur is a stronghold of Jaish-e-Mohammad, Muridke of Lashkar-e-Taiba.

‘This blood may be ours or theirs, but it is human blood’—civil society groups in PoK call for peace

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Led by Jammu & Kashmir National Awami Party & Jammu & Kashmir National Students Federation, demonstrators seek end to military tensions that wreak havoc on communities along LoC.

All about the P-8I Poseidon, India’s ‘Eye in the Sky’ amid tensions over Pahalgam terror attack

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Long-range patrol aircraft has become backbone of India's anti-submarine warfare as well as intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance & multi-domain operations across land & sea.

‘India’s waters will now be used only in India’s interests’—Modi issues strong message to Pakistan

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This comes at a time when India has put Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance & tensions are high between the 2 countries ahead of possible military action as response to Pahalgam terror attack.

Pakistani actor attacks Javed Akhtar for seeking strict action against terrorists in her country

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Bushra Ansari, who won the Presidential Pride of Performance Award, asked Javed Akhtar to have some restraint, saying, ‘You have very little time left in life, and yet you’re still talking like this’.

Surge in spy calls near India-Pak border amid tensions over Pahalgam attack, security increased

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Jaisalmer SP Sudheer Choudhary urged civilians, especially in border areas, not to share any information with unknown callers and to immediately report such incidents to the police.
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