The National Security Committee (NSC) of Pakistan, the highest security agency, will meet today to evaluate the series of aggressive measures of India against the country, following an attack in Kashmir controlled by India that claimed more than two dozen lives, and formulate a comprehensive political reaction.
Yesterday, India closed the borders, degraded the diplomatic ties and, in an unprecedented movement, unilaterally announced the suspension of the swing of the Indo’s waters on what the Government and the media of BJP, without offering any evidence, was the alleged support of Islamabad to cross -border terrorism. Pakistan has denied any role in the attack and offered condolences for the loss of lives.
Today, the Indian media reported that the Government has blocked the X Pakistani Government’s account in the country and convened the Pakistani position of affairs in New Delhi.
Among the Indian measures he announced yesterday, the suspension of the Treaty of the Water of the Indo (IWT) 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 degraded 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.
The attack took place in Pahalgam, a tourist access point in Kashmir occupied by India that attracts thousands of visitors every summer. The gunmen opened fire against visitors, killing at least 26 people, all men from all over India, except one from Nepal, and wounding others 17. It was the most fatal attack in the region against civilians since 2000.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened the NSC meeting on Thursday morning to “respond to the declaration of the Indian government”, last night, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar (previously Twitter).
The NSC meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz, “will discuss in detail the irresponsible actions of India after the False Flag operation of Pahalgam”, administered by the State Pakistan radio reported.
The meeting will attend the high -level civil and military leadership to deliberate on the “internal and external situation arising after the operation of Pahalgam’s false flag,” he added.
It will review the response to “the impulsive and impulsive water measures of India,” according to the report, referring to the IWT.
On the other hand, India has summoned Saad Ahmad Warraich, the main Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi, the Hindustan Times He reported Thursday, citing Fuentes.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has also requested a multiparty meeting with opposition parties to inform them about the government’s response to the attack.
Amid increasing tensions, India has retained access to official Pakistan government, NDTV reported.
Appearing in Dunya TV Last night, give roller against the approach of India, calling him “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.”
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.
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”.
Kugelman described the actions of India “highly consistent reprisals”, highlighting that “in 2019, India threatened to suspend IWT but did not continue.”
The Pakistan Foreign Ministry had expressed concern and condolence for the loss of tourists’ life yesterday. The Indian government had promised that a “strong and clear” response would be delivered to the attack.
Tuesday’s attack is seen as a setback of what Modi and his Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata have projected as an important achievement in revoking the special status that Jammu and Kashmir enjoyed and bringing peace and development to the region of the Muslim majority of the long and crowded.
The ministers criticize the ‘War of Water’ for India
Power Minister Sardar Awais Leghari said the water treaty “in a hurry and without taking into account its consequences is equivalent to the Water War.”
In a statement issued by the division of the Ministry of Power, the minister said: “The reckless suspension of India of the Indo Water Treaty is an act of Water War; a cowardly and illegal movement. Each fall is ours correctly and we will defend it with all the force, legal, political and global.”
The Federal Minister of Water Resources, Mian Moeen Wattoo, said that India could not make a unilateral decision on the IWT because she had the support of international organizations.
Wattoo said that Pakistan would not succumb to “external pressure and any aggression on the Indian side would be responded properly,” according to a statement carried out by the Associated Press of Pakistan.
Former Railroad Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique said that India took the “without proof or evidence” measures, qualifying the “sad and reckless” movement.
“The Indo Water Treaty is not just an agreement between Pakistan and India, it was arbitrated by the World Bank and has international guarantees,” he said in a televised statement.
Rafique stressed that either side cannot unilaterally suspend the pact. “For a long time, Indian leaders were trying to free themselves from the treaty, but this could not be possible,” he said.
“By interrupting the treaty, India has fueled the flames of tensions in the region,” said the former minister.
Aggressive measures for India
The announcement of punitive measures occurred after Tuesday’s meeting of the Security Committee of the Indian Cabinet (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Among the measures, the CCS said that Attari’s border check stall was closed; The Pakistani in India under the exemption scheme of Visa Saarc (SVE) had 48 hours to leave the country, while others could return before May 1; The defense personnel of the High Pakistani Commission in India had a week to leave the country and the staff of the high commissions would also be reduced.
“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 Water Treaty will remain in suspense “with an immediate effect, until Pakistan is accreditable and irrevocable its support for cross -border terrorism.”
“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 Visa 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, referring to a suspect in the attacks of Mumbai 2008.
Kashmir students report harassment, attacks
Following a search operation launched by India yesterday, the students of occupied assholes have reported harassment and intimidation in other cities, AFP He cited an association of students as he said.
Kashmir students in states such as Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh were supposedly asked to leave their rented apartments or university shelters yesterday, said the convening of the Association of Students of Jammu and Kashmir, Nasir Khuehami.
In a university in Himachal Pradesh, the students were physically harassed and attacked after the doors of the shelter broke, Khuehami said.
The students were supposedly called “terrorists,” he added.
“This is not just a security problem,” he said. “It is a deliberate and specific campaign of hate and vilice against students of a particular region and identity.”
In the capital of Uttarakhand, Dehradun, around 20 students fled yesterday to the airport after warnings of Hindu Raksha Dal, a marginal right group.
The students said the group threatened Muslim students in Kashmir with dire consequences if they did not leave the city as soon as possible.
Set and Clara ‘Answer’
Meanwhile, India Defense Minister Rajnath Singh promised a quick 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 Singh in a speech in New Delhi, one day after the attack.
“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.
According to the reports, an encounter between the Indian security forces and the alleged militants in the Tangmarg area containing Pahalgam, at the time of going to the press, was being held.
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.
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