The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swore to pursue, follow and punish terrorists and their supporters on Thursday, in a strong reaction to a fatal militant attack on tourists in Kaschmir, in which the police identified two of the armed men as Pakistans.
In a speech in the eastern state of India’s Bihar, modes folded his hands in prayer in memory of the 26 men who were
In the Pahalgam region in Kashmir Indian, killed and killed and warned thousands that gathered at the venue to do the same.
“We will pursue them to the ends of the earth,” said Modi, referring to the attackers without referring to their identity or naming Pakistan.
However, his comments are bound to further ignite the relationships between the nuclear rivals after India has downgraded relationships with Pakistan late Wednesday, which exposed a six decades -old water contract and close the only land limit between the neighbors.
The Pakistani Minister of Power Awais Lekhari described the suspension of the Indus water contract “an act of water warfare; a cowardly, illegal movement”.
Protest in the message
The police in the Indian Kashmir published messages on Thursday with three alleged militants who were involved in the attack, and announced rewards for information that led to their arrest.
Two of the three alleged militants are Pakistani citizens, said the messages. They didn’t say how the men were identified.
India and Pakistan control separate parts of Kashmir and both claim it completely.
The Indian Foreign Minister Vikram Misri said on Wednesday that a cabinet committee for security had been informed about the cross -border links of the attack, the worst for the country’s worst for almost two decades.
Misri, the top diplomat in the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has not offered any proof of the links or provides further details.
Neu -Delhi will also pull out his defense consultants in Pakistan and reduce the size of the employees in Islamabad to 30 out of 55, said Misri.
Modi has also requested an all-party meeting with opposition parties to inform you about the government’s reaction.
Dozens of demonstrators gathered on Thursday in front of the Pakistani embassy in Neu -Delhi’s diplomatic enclave, called slogans and urged police barricades.
Pakistani officials meet
In Islamabad, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was to keep a meeting of the National Security Committee meeting to discuss Pakistan’s answer, Foreign Minister Ishaq said in one post on X.
The Indus contract mediated by the World Bank and signed in 1960 regulated the joint use of waters of the Indus and its tributaries between India and Pakistan. Since then, two wars between the neighbors and at other times have stood strictly in ties.
The diplomatic relationships between the two countries were weak even before the recent measures were announced when Pakistan reported India and did not publish his own ambassador in Neu-Delhi after India revoked the half-autonomous status of Kashmir in 2019.
The attack on Tuesday is seen as a setback to one of the Janata Party of Modi and its Hindu nationalists Bharatiya, which enjoyed the revocation of the special status of Jammu’s special status and the state of Kashmir and were brought into the lengthy region of the Muslim majority of peace and development.
26 people were killed and 17 were injured, as alleged militants on tourists in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir opened the worst in the country.
India has often accused Islamic Pakistan of engagement on an uprising in Kashmir, but Islamabad says that it only offers diplomatic and moral support for the demand for self -determination.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Kashmir since the beginning of the uprising in 1989, but it has been rejuvenated in recent years and tourism has increased in the picturesque region.
