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India on Thursday (April 24, 2025) informed Pakistan of its decision to keep Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance with immediate effect, saying Pakistan has breached conditions of the treaty. Sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting Jammu and Kashmir impedes India’s rights under the Indus Waters Treaty, India’s Secretary of Water Resources Debashree Mukherjee said in a letter addressed to her Pakistani counterpart, Syed Ali Murtaza.
“The obligation to honour a treaty in good faith is fundamental to a treaty. However, what we have seen instead is sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” the letter read.
Panun Kashmir, an organisation advocating for the cause of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, urged the Centre on Thursday (April 24, 2025) to issue a travel advisory for Kashmir, asserting that the situation in the Valley is “far from normal” and tourists, particularly Hindus, face a serious threat.
Houses of suspected LeT terrorists destroyed in Pulwama and Anantnag after Pahalgam attack, police silent on demolitions. The High Commission of India in London, U.K., organised a solemn tribute at India House to honour and remember the victims of the terrorist attack. High Commissioner of India to the U.K., Vikram Doraiswami, says, “This is the largest killing of civilians since the Mumbai terror attacks.
People were pulled out, identified and based on their religious identity, they were shot dead. The purpose was to create terror and to undermine the ongoing normalisation in Jammu & Kashmir. There have been such practices to intimidate, divide and distract India, but it hasn’t worked before, won’t work now, and will never work. We are 1.4 billion people, and we are a nation moving forward.”
On India’s five-point action against Pakistan over Pahalgam attack, ex-foreign secretary Shashank says, “Over the several decades, we have given enough proof that Pakistani state has been behind all the terrorist activities in India and we cannot allow them to have this free run in India, and it is necessary that some cost should be imposed on Pakistan and Pakistani people, because we feel that unless Pakistani people try to moderate the behaviour of their what they call the democracy in Pakistan or their military chiefs who try to run the affairs of their country.”
Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi will leave for Srinagar and Udhampur shortly. He is scheduled to meet senior Army commanders deployed in the Kashmir valley, along with officials of other security agencies. He will be reviewing the ongoing security situation in the valley and attempts by the Pakistan Army to violate the ceasefire along the Line of Control there, according to Defence officials.
