Terrorist attack PAHALGAM: At least 26 people, mostly tourists, including two foreigners, were killed and 10 others were injured in a terrorist attack at the picturesque station Pahalgam Hill in South Kashmir on Tuesday.
It is assumed that the queue of resistance (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan Lashkar-E-TABA, is one of Tuesday’s attack, one of the deadliest in the recent past.
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The last big terrorist strike in Kashmir was 9 June, last year last year on the day of the ceremonial oath of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third term of office, when unidentified terrorists fired on bus ferries, resulting in death at least 10 people and injuries 33 others in Reasi district in Reasi district in Reasi district in Reasi District of Reasi in the district of Reasi. Region Jammu.
“Bigger than anything we have seen in recent years”
The terrorist attack on the construction site in Jammu and the Kashmir district of Ganderbal killed a doctor and six migrating workers in October 2024. TRF, forbidden outfit, also claimed responsibility for Ganderball attack.
The Pahalgam attack was more dead than the previous in many aspects, except for numbers.
“The number of victims is still found, so I do not want to get to these details. They will be officially mediated because the situation will be clearer. No need to say that this attack is much greater than anything we have directed to civilians in recent years,” Jamma and chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in the X post.
Pulwama attack
The Pahalgam attack is the largest after Pulwama attack from 2019 in terms of victims. 14 February 2019 was killed at least 40 staff of the Indian central reserve police forces (CRPF), when the convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security staff at Jammu-SEBVEVRAVY BOMBARDER IN THE TURSHAPORA SRINAGAR attacked the National highway in the first State of Jammu and Kashmir.
During the retaliation of a terrorist attack in Pulwam, the Indian Air Force carried out an air strike in a terrorist camp in Pakistan in Balakot. In an attack by India, she claimed that she had killed many terrorists and destroyed terrorist training camps.
Is the Pahalgam attack the deadliest attack in the recent past of Kashmir? Here are 5 key reasons:
1- US VP Vance in India
The attack comes the day when the US Vice President JD visits us by India. Vance, who launched his four -day official tour to India 21 April, was on the day of the attack in Jaipur in Rajasthan.
“Usha and I are expanding condolences to the victims of a devastating terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India. Over the past few days, we have been overcome by the beauty of this country and its people. Our thoughts and prayers are with them when we mourn in this terrible attack,” Vance said.
The attack is a sharp reminder of the Chittisinghpura massacre, in which 205 Sikhs were killed by terrorists in the village of Chittisinghpura in the Anantnag 20. March 2000. The attack occurred on the eve of US President Bill Clinton in India.
Baisaran, where there was a Tuesday attack, is a popular tourist destination in the Anantnag South Kashmir district.
Attack comes days after terrorist attacks 26/11 MasterMind Tahawwur Rana was successfully released and arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Delhi.
2- Modi in Saudi Arabia
The incident in Pahalgam occurred to the daily Prime Minister Narendra Modim landed in Jeddah on a two -day Saudi Arabic journey.
Visiting Modi in Saudi Arabia is essential for the Geopolitical Order. The world in general and especially Western Asia suffers from conflicts of impaired economic tension.
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Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Jeddah in four decades. All his previous visits were in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Indira Gandhi was the last Indian Prime Minister who visited Jeddah in 1982.
It is located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz, Jeddah, Commercial Center, is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh. Jeddah is also significant as a gateway to Mecca and Medina, the two most sacred cities of Islam and the place of the annual pilgrimage of Hajj.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday had a telephone interview with the Minister of the Interior Union Amit Shah of Saudi Arabia after the Pahalgam attack
“They will be brought to justice for this abominable act … They will not be spared! Their bad agenda will never succeed. Our determination to fight terrorism is unshakable and even stronger,” Modi said in position X.
3 – the largest strike after 370 cancellation
Tuesday’s attack has been the deadliest since August 2019, when the government Modi canceled Article 370 and granted Jammu and Kashmir special status. The government also bifurcated the former state into two territories of the Union – Jammú and Kashmir and Ladakh in August 2019.
Infact, “Front Resistance Front (TRF)”, an outfit that is assumed to be behind Pahalgam, is a new terrorist group that has appeared as a result of abolition of Article 370.
4- Declining terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir
In March 2025, speaking in parliament, the Minister of the Interior of the Union Amit Shah said that after the removal of Article 370, the involvement of Indian youth with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir almost disappeared, India reported today.
Shah said that terrorist incidents in Jamm and Kashmir have dropped significantly. In comparison, he stated that between 2004 and 2014, the region recorded 7,217 terrorist incidents, while between 2014 and 2024 this figure dropped to 2,242. It also recorded a 70 % reduction in death due to terrorism under the government.
5- AMARNATH YATRA 2025 and Peak Tourism
A terrorist attack in Pahalgam comes in front of the annual Amarnath Yatra to be scheduled for June 29 and will be closed on August 19, 2024.
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The temple is basically inside the cave located at an altitude of 3,888 m (12 756 ft), about 168 km from Anantnag in South Kashmir. The journey to the temple is either Sonamarg or Pahalgam, a tourist destination where Tuesday’s attack occurred.
A terrorist attack can have an impact on the plans of those who wanted to visit the shrine this year. Amarnath Yatra occurred. On July 10, 2017, for example, in a terrorist attack, seven Hindu pilgrims were killed on the way from the Temple of Amarnath. Pilgrims usually belonged to Gujarat.
They will be brought to justice for this abominable act … they will not be spared! Their bad agenda will never succeed.
Kashmir’s tourist at the top can also derail the Paalgam attack. Tourist arrivals in Kashmir have interrupted all previous records, as nearly three million tourists arrived in the UT December 2024, which meant significant support in the tourism industry in the region.
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