Overview

• Terrorists killed 26 tourists, including an Indian Navy officer, in a targeted attack at Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22.
• India expelled Pakistani military attaches, suspended the Indus Water Treaty, and closed the Attari land-transit post in response to cross-border links to the attack.
• Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official, urged the US to formally designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror and its Army Chief Asim Munir as a terrorist.
• Rubin likened the timing of the attack to past militant incidents during high-profile US visits to India, suggesting it aimed to divert attention from Vice President JD Vance’s trip.
• Indian security forces have launched ongoing operations to track down the perpetrators of the attack, which is one of the deadliest in Kashmir since 2019.