Overview
- The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi unanimously adopted a 45-page, 140-point New Delhi Declaration that for the first time named and condemned the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack and cited 26 killed.
- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah praised the mention of Pahalgam as a success for India’s foreign policy and highlighted that Pakistan was not named in the declaration as a matter for the central government to address.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that no BRICS member objected to the declaration’s wording, giving the statement greater diplomatic weight because the grouping includes countries with ties to Pakistan.
- Local leaders said the BRICS wording could create political momentum for concrete steps to lower troop deployments along the Line of Control and the Line of Actual Control, which would ease daily hardship for communities near the borders.
- The Pahalgam attack on April 22, 2025 led to Indian strikes known as Operation Sindoor and a four-day clash with Pakistan, and the BRICS condemnation now frames that security episode as an international rebuke of the attack.