Srinagar, India – After the trekcracks through streams and forests in Kashmir who manages the Indian Kashmir, Suchel Kalthia and her family for the holidays just arrived at a remote, picturesque meadow when they heard gunshots.
Kalthia, who was with his wife and their two children, said “felt something wrong and run to hide behind the tent, but suddenly they stood in front of us.”
Milijants armed with rifles dropped to tourists in meadows from the surrounding forest, identifying non-Muslims, and then separated men from women and children.
One of the militants “He kicked six to seven men in front of me,” Kalshia said, before he shot his wife, Shailesh.
“My husband died in my lap and I couldn’t do anything,” she told reporters on Thursday at her homely Surat in the Indian State of Gujarat.
Twenty-six people were killed on Tuesday attacks, which took place in one of the best tourist destinations of Kashmir valleys, whose lush green meadows, thick pine forests and mountains are snow. “
He was the deadliest attack on Indian civilians in almost two decades, and took place while Vice President JD Vance and his family visited another part of India. All but one killed were Indian citizens; The other was from Nepal.
Attack near the town of Pahalga in Kashmir, the challenged Himalayan region, which is the only Muslim majority part of India, devastated by the local tourism industry where many rely on life. Indian Prime Minister Orandra Modi Insisting was also died to stabilize the security situation after a decade-long separatist rebellion.
New Delhi replied with anger, immediately reducing ties with neighboring Pakistan, who has long accused of support cross-border terrorism. Indian officials say that Gunmen had to do with militant groups based in Pakistan, which denies any involvement.
Relations between the two nuclear powers, who both rule parts of Kashmir and fought in two wars in the region, are now in their lowest points for years after suspensions in the suspension of the titer and expulsion of diplomats and civilians. On Saturday, Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged the shooting for the second day in a row along the control line that divides two parts of Kashmir.
Modi, a Hindu nationalist who oversees shooting at the disagreement in Kashmir, promised an attack. Family houses several suspects are demolished.
“I say the whole world, India will identify, follow and punish every terrorist and their support,” Thursday said.
President Donald Trump, who is close to Modi, said the Indian leader has his “full support”.
For Indians, watching the Modio’s speech, was echo in 2019. year when the Kashmir was blown in the Indian security forces convoy and replied with the launch of air strikes on Pakistan.
Six years later, Indian nationalism is higher than ever, the Power Away, and the United States is no longer in Afghanistan, and the analysts say that analysts were distracted by violence between India and Pakistan.
“Maybe India is a bit empty check to do anything that he wants,” said Chietigj Bajpaee, a taller research guy for South Asia in Chatham House, thoughtful for thinking.
Region Simmering with anger
The indignation between India and Pakistan dates until 1947, when the Hindu-most India received the independence of the British colonial rule and Muslim Pakistan was established as a separate situation in which hundreds of thousands were killed during crossing over a newly formed border.
The border lines were clearly defined and accepted, except for the mountain condition of Jamma and Kashmir, which is among the most small places in the world. Both Pakistan and India asked him a full claim, but most of the Indian governance, while Pakistan controls a small piece in the west.
Tensions have escalated since Modi revoked Kashmirov’s status in 2019. year, in a direct control of the Federal Government in the move and increased that Kashmir’s ethnic and religious identity would be diluted by Hindu immigrants.
The Modina Government said the move ended up with the decades of armed rebellion in the region. The elections were held last year and welcomed as a sign of normalcy.
“One indicator of the normality that the government has always gave was, see so many tourists,” he said that he was l. General. Deependra Singh Hood, former head of the North Command of the Indian Army, who was stationed in Jamma and Kashmir since 2012. until 2016. years.
Praven Donthi, a new higher analyst based in Delhi in the International Crisis Group, said the attack was “the failure of colossal intelligence”.
The story of the peace and stability of the Fashion led to confidence, which is why they did not see this coming, “he said.
‘Bodies lie on Earth’
Pallavi Rao and her husband, Manjunat, took his son in Kashmir to celebrate his close result in his high school diplomatic exams. They enjoyed driving a boat on the popular Dalski Lake in the capital Srinagar Kashmir before heading for Pahalgam for about 30 miles.
Militants found them in the meadow.
After her husband was shot in the head, Rao told reporters, she and her son asked billions to kill them. They refused by saying, “We won’t kill you, go, tell Prime Minister Modi.”
Local Handhelics Handles were also killed, Syed Adil Hussain Shah, was also killed while trying to save tourists.
“He used to earn 3.50 rupees ($ 3.50), our only source of family income,” Ravis Hussain Shah, his younger sister, told NBC news in the village of Hapatnur.
Among the first to reach the scene was Sajad Ahmad Bhat, 31, a shopkeeper and tourist guide.
“I saw the bodies that lie on the field,” he said.
Bhat has passed one of the victims nearly 2.5 miles to safety, which he saw the virus online.
“I don’t know who the boy was. But he cried and asked for help, his hands and swamps were soaked in his blood,” he said.
From the attack, India suspended the 1960 Water Agreement. With Pakistan and closed the only functional border crossing of the mainland. Pakistan, who said that any disorder of his water supply would consider the “rank of war,” he closed his airspace on Indian airlines and stopped all the trade with his neighbor.
Analysts in Pakistan say that the government can use the situation in order to perform cashmere back to global debates.
“Pakistan can say, this happens because of Indian human rights violations in Kashmir,” Farhan Siddiqi said, a professor of international relations at the Quaid-I-Azam University in Islamabad.
Kashmir noticed completely exclusion on Wednesday, because the locals and politicians marched through the streets denying murders. The roads across Kashmir were abandoned, and the shops were closed and without transporting roads.
“We wanted to exhibit that the cashimis are non-violent and peaceful people, and all some innocent killings should not be held in our soil,” said Javed Ahmad Tenga, the President of the Chamber Chamber of Chamber of Commerce.
The United Nations called on India and Pakistan to “practice maximum restraint” and invited to “meaningful, mutual engagement”. But DoThi and others say that there is probably a strong Indian military action against Pakistan.
“Evalent from air strikes in 2019. years will not do. The public is looking for something much higher,” Donthi said. “After riding the tiger hyperanialism, the government coincided into an angle. This is their litmus test and they have to go out with flying colors.”
Junaid Kathju reported from Srinagar, India, and Mithil Aggarwal reported from Hong Kong.
2025-04-26 09:53:00
