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'Ask PM Modi': Farooq Abdullah on how India should respond to Pakistan for Pahalgam attack

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NEW DELHI: National Conference supremo Farooq Abdullah on Monday rebuffed reporters when asked how India should respond to Pakistan for the deadly Pahalgam attack by Islamabad-backed terrorists. Abdullah told them to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi on how India should retaliate.

"Pakistan ko kya jawaab dena chahiye, woh prime minister se puchiye (Go and ask PM Modi what India's response to Pakistan should be)," Abdullah said.


The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir has repeatedly called for dialogue between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.

India's diplomatic actions against Pakistan

On April 23, a day after the attack, the PM-headed Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) decided to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, a move Pakistan would go on to call "an act of war." The CCS also decided to close the integrated Attari check post and directed all Pakistanis in India to leave within 48 hours. Also, no Pakistani national would be allowed to travel to India.

Additionally, Islamabad's military advisors in its high commission in New Delhi were declared persona non grata, and given a week to return to their country. New Delhi also recalled its own military advisors from the Indian high commission in Islamabad, and brought down its staff strength to 30 from the present 55.

PM Modi's vow

At a rally in Bihar on April 24, the prime minister switched to English in the middle of his address, and vowed that India would "identify, track and punish every (Pahalgam) terrorist and their backers".

"Every effort will be made to ensure justice is done, entire nation is firm in resolve," PM Modi said in Hindi in Bihar's Madhubani.

He then switched to English.

"Today, from the soil of Bihar, I say this to the whole world, India will identify, trace and punish every terrorist and their backers. We will pursue them to the ends of the Earth," the prime minister declared.

In the aftermath of the attack, several world leaders have spoken to PM Modi, and expressed their support to India in its fight against terror.
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