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Pahalgam Terror Attack
April 26 , 2025
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- 26 people, mostly tourists, dead after the terrorists opened fire in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.
- The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
- In response to this incident, India suspends the decades-old Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan indefinitely.
- With this, the water supply from the Indus River and its distributaries - the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Satluj will be stopped.
- The Indus Waters Treaty was signed on September 19, 1960.
- The pact was signed between India and Pakistan, with the World Bank brokering the agreement.
- That treaty withstood three wars between India and Pakistan - in 1965, 1971, and 1999, but is now suspended indefinitely.
- The Integrated Check Post Attari-Wagah border will be closed with the immediate effect.
- The defence or military officials - Naval and air advisers in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi are declared Persona Non Grata.
- India also has withdrawn its own defence - navy, air advisers from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.
- The overall strength of the High Commissions will be brought down to 30 from the present 55 through further reductions, to be effects by 01 May 2025.
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