Pahalgam -terror attack: an overview of important decisions made by India and Pakistan in Week 1 | Today news

A deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district killed 26, people, mostly tourists, at 22 o’clock at about 2pm. ” A group of terrorists started shooting indiscriminately on tourists in the Baisaran Meadow, a popular tourist place in Pahalgam. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the region since the 2019 Pulwama strike, which claimed the lives of the 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Kawane. After the incident, a meeting of a Cabinet Committee for Safety (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced a number of action against Pakistan while he took note of the border -crossing terrorist links on April 23. In retaliation over the measures of India, Pakistan also announced decisions while having a fierce rejection, new Delhi’s actions. In the aftermath of the Pahalgam attacks and amid rising tensions between the two nations, here is a summary of decisions made by India and Pakistan in week 1. India’s actions against Pakistan said at a special press conference on April 23, and assessed the entire power of the high level. “The CCS has decided that the offenders of the Pahalgam attack will be brought before justice and that their sponsors will be accounted for. India will be inexorable in the pursuit of those who have terror, or conspired to make them possible,” Misri said. Measures taken by CCS The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty is kept in compliance immediately, until Pakistan has started his support for borderline terrorism credible and irrevocably, a statement from the Foreign Ministry said on April 23. Those who crossed with valid documents can return through the route before May 1, 2025. 3. Pakistani citizens will not be allowed to travel to India under the SaarC Visa Release Scheme (SIDS) visas. Any SIVER visas issued to Pakistani citizens in the past are considered canceled, the statement says. All existing valid visas issued by India to Pakistani citizens revoked from April 27, 2025. However, medical visas issued to Pakistani citizens will only be valid until April 29, 2025. 4. The Defense/Military, Navy and Air Advisors in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi states that persona is not grata. They have a week to leave India. India will withdraw its own defense/fleet/air advisors from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. These posts in the various high commissions are considered void. Five support staff of the service advisors will also be withdrawn from both high commissions. 5.. The overall strength of the high commissions will be reduced to 30 of the current 55 by further reduction, which must be done by May 1, 2025. “The Indian citizens currently in Pakistan currently in Pakistan are also advised to return to India as early as possible,” the Mea said. A day later, Pakistan again announced retaliation and his own set of measures against India, while rejecting New -Delhi’s actions to ask his neighbor to “refrain from the debt game,” Dawn reports. The action was taken after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) on April 24, the Dawn report states. When Livemint tried to access Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry website to gain access to the decisions made by the NSS, it said ‘cannot be achieved’. Note that the Pakistan government’s X handle also remains inaccessible in India. Pakistan’s website Ministry of Foreign Affairs has read ‘cannot be reached’. Pakistan’s retaliation decisions (as Dawn reports), the committee made the following decisions: Pakistan vehemently rejected the Indian announcement to keep the Indus Waters Treaty in compliance. Any attempt to stop or deduce the flow of water that should stop or deduce to Pakistan … will be considered a war weather and responded with full power … (Read the full text of Pakistan’s PMO press release here) Pakistan will exercise the right to hold all bilateral agreements with India, but not limited to the Sima Agreement. All border transport transport from India through this route is suspended without exception. Those who crossed a valid approval can return through the route immediately, but no later than 30 April 2025. 4 Pakistan suspends all visas under the SAARC Visa Release Scheme (SIVER) issued to Indian citizens and think they were immediately canceled, with the exception of Sikh religious pilgrims. Indian citizens currently in Pakistan under SIVers are instructed to go out within 48 hours except Sikh -Pilgrims. 5. Pakistan declares the Indian defense, fleet and air advisors in Islamabad persona non grata. They are instructed to leave Pakistan immediately, but no later than April 30, 2025. These posts in the High Commission are considered void. Support staff of these advisers are also aimed at returning to India. 6. The strength of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad will be reduced to 30 diplomats and staff members, with effect from 30 April 2025. 7. All trade with India, including to and from any third country, although Pakistan was immediately suspended. First published: 27 Apr 2025, 09:44 IST