Overview

• Pakistan issued a notification for a surface-to-surface missile test off its Karachi coast, scheduled between April 24–25, within its Exclusive Economic Zone.
• Indian defence agencies are closely monitoring the missile test as tensions rise between the two nations after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.
• India responded to the attack by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, closing the Attari check post, downgrading diplomatic ties, and expelling Pakistani military advisors.
• The Pahalgam attack, claimed by The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, targeted tourists and is believed to aim at disrupting democratic processes in Jammu and Kashmir.
• Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened a National Security Committee meeting to formulate a counter-response to India's punitive measures.