24/04/2025
NEW DELHI, Apr 23: Coming down strongly on Pakistan following the dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam in which 26 tourists were killed, India today announced it is holding in abeyance the Indus Waters Treaty, and shutting down the land border check post of Attari. India also declared the Defence advisors in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi as Persona Non Grata and asked them to leave.
India is also cutting down the strength of the High Commissions - of the Pakistan HC in New Delhi, and its own in Islamabad -- to 30 from the present 55 through further reductions, to be effected by May 1, 2025.
The Cabinet Committee on Security, which met in the evening under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was informed of the cross-border linkages of the Pahalgam terrorist attack and it was also noted that this attack came in the wake of the successful holding of elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and its steady progress towards economic growth and development.
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