India and Pakistan canceled visa services for the nationals of others on Thursday in the midst of growing tensions about a brutal terrorist attack against Indian tourists in Kashmir.
The uncomfortable neighbors closed the airspace, closed border crossings, suspended trade and exchanged increasingly aggressive comments on the suspension of India of an important water treaty.
On Tuesday, a separatist organization of Kashmir say responsibility For the four -weapons team that laughed 26 and wounded more boxes in the Himalaya or Pahalgam tourist shelter. According to reports, the attacker allowed women and Muslims to flee while fired men.
Many Indian officials believe that the true master mind Behind the attack was a notorious Pakistani terrorist group called Lashkar-E-Taiba (LT). India has long criticized Pakistan for not doing enough to control the cross -border terrorist attacks of LT. Some accuse the Pakistani government to support the jihadist terrorist group.
Kashmir police on Thursday Appointed Three of the four suspects in the attack and published a reward for the information he led to his trial. The notices identified two of the suspects as Pakistani citizens. He Third He is a man from Anantnag, a city in the Jammu-Kashmir region. Police said the three are members of Lashkar-E-Taiba.
He Times of India (Toi) reported On Thursday, Anantag’s man, Adil Thokar, traveled to Pakistan in 2018 to train in terrorist camps before returning to infiltrated background last year. Toi’s security sources said Adil maintained a “low profile upon his return” while using his extensive knowledge of the Pahalgam area to plan Tuesday’s attack.
“I tell everyone: India will identify, track and punish all terrorists and their sponsor,” Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said A meeting in the state of Bihar on Thursday.
“We will persecute them to the confines of the earth,” Modi promised. “I say this unequivocally: who has carried out this attack, and the Whoes who devised it, will be made to pay beyond their image.”
“They will certainly pay. Regardless of land thesis terrorists, it is time to reduce it to dust. The willpower of 1,400 million Indians will break the backbone of these terrorists,” he said.
Modi rarely speaks to the Indian public in English, but did so during his speech on Thursday, transmitting his comments to an international audience.
India citation The Pakistan ambassador, Thursday, to declare all the defense advisors in the Pakistani diplomatic mission was now a non -pleasant person, and India will abandon immediately. India and Pakistan proceeded to cancel visas for citizens of the opposite country and told them to return home.
The specific Foreign Ministry that urged Pakistani to leave the country.
“All valid visas issued to the Pakistani national position revoked from April 27, while medical visas issued to Pakistani citizens will be valid until April 29,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, according to the Hindustan Times. “All Pakistani citizens currently in India must leave India before the expiration of the visas, as is now modified.”
Pakistan responded to the cancellation of India’s visas by closing his airspace to Indian flights, which led Air India to redirect international traffic.
“Air India regrets the inconvenience caused to our passengers due to this closure of shocking airspace that is out of our control,” the airline told customers on Thursday.
The Government also announced that Indian citizens in Pakistan under the SAARC (SVE) visa exemption scheme had two days to leave the country, with the exception of Sijs religious pilgrims.
Pakistan on Thursday morning saying “It would exercise the right to maintain all bilateral agreements with India, including, among others, the Simla Agreement, suspended.” The Simla Agreement is a 1972 trade and diplomatic pact that was intended to reconcile the country two countries after the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.
Islamabad framed this dramatic suspension of trade with India in response to New Delhi that suspends the swing of the Indo waters on Wednesday. The Pakistani Prime Minister’s office, Shehbaz Sharif, said that “vehemence rejects the movement of India, and could be prepared to consider it a” act of war “if India remains in suspense.
“All trade with India, even from and to any third country through Pakistan, is immediately suspended,” said Prime Minister’s office.
He INDO WATER TREATY It is a 1960 agreement negotiated by the World Bank that divided the six rivers of the India basin between India and Pakistan. The three Western rivers went to Pakistan, while the Eastern rivers went to India. The treaty allowed India to use Western rivers for “non -consumptive” activity, such as hydroelectric energy, but it was forbidden to alter river flows or prevent Pakistan’s access to their waters.
The Pakistan waterchart is much more fragile than that of India, so it depends largely on the water supply guaranteed by the 1960 treaty. If the significant Indian alters the flow of the Indo rivers, it could gradually cut up to 80 percent or the Pakistan water supply.
The Water Treaty of the Indo does not have a suspension clause, but India has threatened to suspend the duration of participation several previous conflicts with Pakistan, including terrorist attacks and direct shots wars. Last August, India notified Pakistan that he wanted an integral “review” of the treaty, but on Tuesday he marked the first time that India formally suspended his participation.
“The 1960 Indus Water Treaty will remain in suspense with an immediate effect, until Pakistan is credible and irrevocable abjussion for his support for cross -border terrorism,” said the Indian government, surpassing the Pakistani, Whoalgam had Nathalgam
