NEW DELHI: In the wake of the killing of 27 tourists in Pahalgam area of Occupied Kashmir a day earlier, India has suspended Indus Waters Treaty 2960; closed Attari Border Checkpost, ordered Pakistanis to leave the country by 1st May, 2025.
Talking to journalists at a Presser held here on 23rd April, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told about the rendezvous of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) with the PM in the Chair: “In the briefing to the CCS, the cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out. It was noted that this attack came in the wake of the successful holding of the elections in the union territory and its steady progress towards economic growth and development.
“Recognising the seriousness of this terrorist attack, the CCS decided upon the following measures: the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 will be held in abeyance with immediate effect until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.” According to details all those Pakistanis who entered India utilising the facility of the Saarc Visa Exemption, will have to leave within 48 hours. Others have been ordered to exit by 1st May.
“Pakistani nationals will not be permitted to travel to India under the Saarc Visa Exemption Scheme…The defence, military, naval and air advisers at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi are declared persona non grata. They have a week to leave India. India will be withdrawing its own defence, navy and air advisers from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.”
India, that has also closed Attari Border Check Post, ordered personnel associated with defense at the Pakistani diplomatic pose here to leave within a week. Expressing concern over killing of 27 tourists by unknown militants in Pahalgam area of Occupied Kashmir a day earlier, the spokesman of the Foreign Office here expressed Pakistan’s concerns Wed (23rd April, 2025).
Foreign Office of Pakistan, extending condolences to the relatives of the slain tourists, stated: “We are concerned at the loss of tourists’ lives in an attack in Anantnag district of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.” According to details four militants randomly shot 27 tourists (all men) dead in the Baisaran meadow (5km away from Pahalgam) by means of automatic guns on Tuesday (22nd April, 2025). The shooting lasted 20-30 minutes.
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