J&K terror attack News

Tensions have mounted between India and Pakistan after Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists sponsored and aided by Pakistan on April 22 in Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam.  

Meanwhile, media reports citing senior officials also suggested that the perpetrators of the attack, which claimed the lives of at least 26 people and left several others injured, were present in Baisaran Valley two days before the attack.

The CCS condemned the attack in the strongest terms and expressed its deepest condolences to the families of the victims and hoped for the early recovery of the injured. In the briefing to the CCS, the cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out.

The latest addition to India’s arsenal will ensure a big edge to New Delhi over Pakistan amid the simmering tensions along the border over the Pahalgam attack, which claimed the lives of 26 people, mostly tourists.  

The US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that Washington is in touch with the governments of the neighbouring countries. Meanwhile, as many as 786 Pakistani nationals have left India through the Attari-Wagah border point within six days beginning April 24, said a senior official.

The Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO) has shared the list with a special branch of the Delhi police, and it was further shared with the district concerned for further verification and identification. 

Speaking further about the terror attack in Pahalgam during ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday, the Prime Minister said that at the time when peace was restored in Kashmir, terrorists hatched a conspiracy in a bid to destroy the valley.  

The unrest remains high along the LoC even as security forces intensified anti-terror operations in the Kashmir valley in the aftermath of the Phalgam terror attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, on April 22. 

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FBI Director Kash Patel stated that the Pahalgam terror attack is a reminder of the constant threats that the world faces from the evil of terrorism.

Multiple police teams are currently interrogating those detained to ascertain how they acquired forged documents and how long they have been residing in the city undetected.

The UNSC issued a Press Statement on ‘terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’ in which the members “condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir” on April 22.

The Indus Waters Treaty, signed in 1960 with the World Bank as a mediator, divides the six rivers of the Indus Basin between India and Pakistan.

US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce on Thursday (local time) shunned a Pakistani journalist during a press briefing for questioning her over border tensions between India and Pakistan. 

Ashish Chauhan, Managing Director and CEO of NSE, said the exchange stands in solidarity with their families during this difficult time.

LIC said that all efforts will be taken to ensure that the claimants are reached out and claims are settled expeditiously to the affected families.

PM Modi, who was on a visit to Bihar, echoed his resolve to eradicate terrorism and said that India will identify and punish every terrorist and their backers. 

There were high tensions outside the Pakistan High Commission in the capital on Thursday, barely two days since the fatal terrorist attack in Pahalgam that left at least 26 people dead.

Shubham Dwivedi, a 31-year-old businessman from Kanpur, was killed in the Pahalgam terror attack. He was cremated at his native village with full state honours on Thursday morning, officials said.  

The latest action comes after at least 26 people were killed and several others sustained injuries in the dastardly attack by terrorists on tourists in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.