NEW DELHI, April 24 (Alliance News): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday vowed a severe response against those involved in the Pahalgam attack, which claimed over two dozen lives in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.
Addressing a public gathering in Bihar, PM Modi declared: “India will identify, track and punish every terrorist and their backer. We will pursue them to the ends of the Earth.”
The attack, the deadliest on civilians in the region since 2000, occurred on Tuesday at the popular tourist site, prompting the Modi-led government to accuse Pakistan of backing cross-border terrorism—an allegation Islamabad has categorically denied.
In response, India suspended the decades-old Indus Waters Treaty, closed the Integrated Check Post at Attari, and banned entry for Pakistani nationals. Additionally, it ordered all military, naval, and air advisers in Pakistan’s High Commission to leave within a week and scaled down diplomatic staff in both countries’ missions to 30 by May 1.
Speaking in both Hindi and English, Modi said, “Those who carried out this attack and those who orchestrated it will be made to pay beyond their imagination. The willpower of 1.4 billion Indians will break the backbone of terrorism.”
He concluded in English: “Terrorism will not go unpunished. Every effort will be made to ensure that justice is done.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened a National Security Committee (NSC) meeting in Islamabad to deliberate over India’s aggressive diplomatic moves and review Pakistan’s security and foreign policy response.
