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Indian FM says Kashmir attackers 'must face justice'
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the military "complete operational freedom" to respond to the terrorist attack during a closed-door meeting on Apr. 29, a senior government source told AFP.
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AFP - Thu, 01, May 2025
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Gudder village, Kulgam district, Kashmir Apr. 26, 2025. / REUTERS/Stringer
India's foreign minister said May. 1 that those who planned and carried out the terrorist attack in Kashmir last week that left 26 men dead "must be brought to justice".
New Delhi blames Pakistan for the terrorist attack on civilians at the tourist site of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on Apr. 22.
Islamabad has rejected the charge and both countries have since exchanged gunfire in Kashmir and issued a raft of tit-for-tat punitive diplomatic measures.
"Its perpetrators, backers and planners must be brought to justice," India's top diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in a statement following a conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Apr. 30 evening in which they discussed the terror attack.
Rubio also spoke to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and in a US readout of the call, told Sharif of the "need to condemn the terror attack" in Kashmir.
Indian and Pakistani soldiers fired at each other overnight along the Line of Control, the de facto border in contested Kashmir, the Indian army said.
It was a seventh straight night gunfire was reported by India.
"During the night... Pakistan Army posts initiated unprovoked small-arms fire across the Line of Control opposite Kupwara, Uri and Akhnoor," the army said in a statement.
"These were responded proportionately by the Indian Army."
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There were no reported casualties and there was no immediate confirmation from Pakistan.
Indian police have issued wanted posters for three men accused of carrying out the Kashmir terror attack -- two Pakistanis and an Indian -- who they say are members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group, a UN-designated terrorist organisation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the military "complete operational freedom" to respond to the terrorist attack during a closed-door meeting on Apr. 29, a senior government source told AFP.
Pakistan's government has denied any involvement in the shooting and vowed that "any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response".
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