The Latest Breaking News from Pahalgam

Indian PM Narendra Modi says his country will pursue attackers ‘and their backers ... to the ends of the Earth’

Across editorial pages in the wake of the Pahalgam attack, the message was clear on Thursday: resist divisive rhetoric, draw strength from recent gains in peace and development, and ensure justice is swift and focused. 

Asawari Jagadale still remembers the sound of gunfire ripping through the meadows in Pahalgam’s Baisaran, and the moment armed men pulled her father from the tent where they were hiding. “They asked him to step outside and recite Islamic verses,” she told Newslaundry. “When he couldn’t, they shot him three…

Analysis: Tourism workers say lives they painstakingly rebuilt after Indian government’s 2019 security clampdown and the Covid pandemic are crumbling once again

Founded in 2019, the little-known group has now taken centre stage in the conflict between India and the rebels.

There is still no indication of who carried out one of the worst recent attacks to hit the restive disputed region.

Water treaty also suspended amid hunt for militants said to have executed men unable to recite Islamic verses

Indian tourist brochures dub the Himalayan region of Kashmir "Little Switzerland", and its mountain meadows are usually packed with visitors escaping the sweltering summer heat in the lowland plains of India.

Attack on tourists in Pahalgam leaves at least 26 people dead

A shadowy group called The Resistance Force, described by Indian security officials as a proxy of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba, has purportedly claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack. TRF had earlier claimed the ambush on a private bus carrying civilians in Jammu’s Reasi area last June. Following the Reasi attack, a…

The deadliest attack on tourists in Kashmir since 2000 has prompted fears of Indian retaliation against Pakistan.