Pahalgam terror attack: India suspends Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan; Attari border closed
India on Wednesday announced a series of diplomatic measures against Pakistan after intelligence agencies claimed the neighbouring country’s role in the horrific terror attack at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
The decisions were taken a crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the evening.
In a hard-hitting move, New Delhi suspended the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan. The treaty will be held in abeyance with immediate effect until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misry said in a short media briefing after the CCS meeting.
India has also decided to close the integrated checkpost at Attari with immediate effect. Those who have crossed over with valid endorsements may return through that route before May 1, 2025, Misry said.
Pakistani nationals will not be permitted to travel to India under the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES) visas. Any SVES visas issued in the past to Pakistani nationals are deemed cancelled. Any Pakistani national currently in India under SVES visa has 48 hours to leave India, said the foreign secretary.
The Defence, Military, Naval, and Air Advisors in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi are declared persona non grata. They have been given a week’s time to leave India.
India will also withdraw its own Defence, Navy and Air advisors from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. These posts in the respective High Commissions are deemed annulled, Misry said.
"The CCS was briefed in detail on the terrorist attack on 22 April 2025 in Pahalgam, in which 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen were killed. A number of others sustained injuries. The CCS condemned the attack in the strongest terms and expressed its deepest condolences to the families of the victims and hoped for the early recovery of the injured," the foreign secretary said in his briefing.
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