Overview

• Twenty-six people, including two foreign nationals, were killed and several others injured when militants opened fire on tourists in the Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
• The Resistance Front, a proxy of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the attack, which intelligence suggests was carried out by five to six infiltrators, including foreign fighters.
• Eyewitnesses and survivors reported that some victims were singled out based on their faith and forced to recite Islamic verses before being executed.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his foreign trip, and Home Minister Amit Shah is leading a high-level security review in Srinagar as security forces conduct an extensive manhunt for the attackers.
• The attack, the deadliest on civilians in the region since 2019, has raised concerns about Kashmir’s security and its impact on the region's recovering tourism sector.