• The National Security Committee to meet today after New Delhi announces the suspension of the Indo Treaty, closes the border, stops the visas, expels the deputy attachments
• Loss of life of condoles in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; GIVE SLAMS The ‘non -serious approach’ of India, terms punitive measures ‘immature’
• The death toll in Pahalgam’s attack increases to 26; multiple reported commitments when Indian forces are looking for assailants
Islamabad / Nueva Delhi: The main security agency in the country will meet today (Thursday) to evaluate the acute response of India, following a deadly attack on the Kashmir controlled by India that claimed more than two dozen lives, and formulated a comprehensive political reaction to the aggressive measures announced by New Delhi, which has increased tensions in the subcontinent.
Among the Indian measures, the suspension of the Treaty of the Water of the Indo stood out as the most severe. The 1960 pact, negotiated by the World Bank, has suffered through wars and decades of hostility. His suspension, therefore, marked a decisive moment in the already tense relationship between neighbors with nuclear weapons.
India further lowered diplomatic ties by closing the main border traffic point, framing the attack as a serious provocation that justified a significant diplomatic, economic and logistics pressure on Pakistan. Indian officials directly linked these measures with the alleged support of Islamabad to “cross -border terrorism.”
But Islamabad has denied any role and said it had nothing to do with the attack.
“Prime Minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif has gathered the National Security Committee meeting on Thursday, April 24, 2025, to respond to the declaration of the Indian government tonight,” published the Deputy Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, published in X (previously Twitter).
Appearing on a private television channel on Wednesday night, giving rolled out against the approach of India, calling it “immature” and “hurried.”
“India has not given any evidence. They have not demonstrated any maturity in their response,” said Dar. “This is a non -serious approach. They began to create advertising immediately after the incident.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, in a separate statement earlier in the day, expressed its regret for the loss of lives.
“We are concerned about the loss of tourists’ life in an attack in the Anantnag district of India occupied by Jammu and Kashmir. We extend our condolences to the close ones of the deceased and wish the injured a rapid recovery,” said the statement.
Diplomatic observers warn that the Indian response and pakistan’s counter-savageness could bring bilateral relations to new minimums, extending even more a crack that has persisted since the pulwama-Balakot 2019 crisis. The suspension of the treaty, in particular, runs the risk of generating long-term water disputes, while the degradation of diplomatic ties could impede any effort to de-escalation future.
Aggressive measures
The announcement of punitive measures occurred after Tuesday of the Cabinet Security Committee (CCS), chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The CCS was informed in detail about the terrorist attack on April 22, 2025 in Pahalgam, in which 25 Indians and a Nepali citizen were killed. Several others suffered wounds. Meeting.
The statement said: “Recognize the seriousness of this terrorist attack, the CCS decided the following measures,” which details how the 1960 Indo Water Treaty will remain in suspense “with an immediate effect, until Pakistan reduces his support to cross -border terrorism in a acreally and irrevocably.
“Integrated Post Attari check will be closed with immediate effect. Those who have crossed with valid endorsements can return through that route before May 1, 2025,” he said.
In addition, Pakistani citizens will not be able to travel to India under the SAARC visas exemption scheme. “Any Sve visas issued in the past to Pakistani citizens are considered canceled. Any Pakistani national currently in India under Sves Visa has 48 hours to leave India.”
In addition, the attached defense and advisors of the High Pakistani commission in New Delhi had been declared ‘Non Grata’ and were given a week to leave India.
“India will withdraw its own defense/marine advisors/air from the High Indian Commission in Islamabad … The general force of the high commissions will be reduced to 30 from the current 55 through new reductions,” said Misri.
The statement also said that the security forces had been put on a maximum alert. “As with the recent extradition of Tahawwur Rana, India will be relentless in the search for those who have committed acts of terror, or conspired to make them possible,” said the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Set and Clara ‘Answer’
Meanwhile, India’s Minister of Defense promised a rapid response to those who carried out and planned Pahalgam’s attack.
“Those responsible and behind such an act will soon listen to our response, strong and clear,” said Rajnath Singh in a speech in New Delhi, a day after armed men killed 26 men at a tourist access point in the Himalayas disputed region.
“We will not only reach those people who carried out the attack. We will also communicate with those who planned this from behind the scene in our land.” Singh did not identify those he believes are responsible for the murders, but said that “the government of India will take every step that is necessary and appropriate.”
A list of hospitals verified by the Police recorded 26 men who were killed on Tuesday afternoon, when armed men left forests in a popular tourist place in Pahalgam and took crowds of visitors with automatic weapons. All those killed were listed as residents of India, except a Nepal man.
Meanwhile, an encounter between the Indian security forces and the alleged militants in the Tangmarg area that paid Pahalgam, at the time of pressing.
In a separate incident in Baramulla on Wednesday, the army killed two people after a “heavy fire exchange”, saying that the gunmen were part of an “infiltration offer”, AFP reported.
World leaders express support “strong expressions of support and solidarity of many governments around the world have been received,” said Misri.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was one of the first to express solidarity with New Delhi. After his leadership, a large number of US legislators and officials, including the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, strongly condemned the armed attack and extended his sincere condolences to the afflicted families, said the UN spokesman Stephane Durric.
The Chinese ambassador to India, Xu Feihong, said he was shocked by the attack in Pahalgam, while the leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union also expressed their pain. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Eau Ministry of Foreign Affairs also sent solidarity messages with the Government.
The analyst Michael Kugelman said that the attack raised a “very serious risk of a new crisis between India and Pakistan, and probably the most serious risk of a crisis since the brief military conflict that occurred in 2019”.
Baqir Sajad Syed in Islamabad and our correspondent in New Delhi also contributed to this report
Posted in Dawn, April 24, 2025
