🇮🇳DEADLY ATTACK IN KASHMIR SPARKS MASSIVE SECURITY CRACKDOWN
After at least 26 people were killed in one of the bloodiest attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir in recent years, security forces flooded the region with armed patrols, checkpoints, and car searches as a manhunt for… https://t.co/JYoOtOMOGk pic.twitter.com/oqUBoK43Tc
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🇮🇳 MODI CUTS SAUDI TRIP SHORT, RUSHES BACK TO DELHI AFTER PAHALGAM ATTACK
Prime Minister Modi cut short his Saudi visit and flew straight back to Delhi after a terror attack struck Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
The sudden return signals just how serious the situation is, with… https://t.co/PKc42C227R pic.twitter.com/0trCntnmnM
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They came dressed like locals, silent in their movements, but armed with calculated cruelty. In a narrow valley near Pahalgam, surrounded by pine forests and mountain air, gunmen ambushed a group of unsuspecting tourists. Twenty-six lives ended in seconds. Seventeen more lay injured, many of them critically. Among the dead were families on vacation, one guide, and a visitor from Nepal. The attackers used body cameras, suggesting a motive far beyond chaos. This was designed for replay, for narrative, for fear.
Pahalgam, once a pocket of calm in Indian-controlled Kashmir, has become the scene of its bloodiest assault in years. Security officials are calling this a turning point. The gunmen did not vanish into the night. They left behind spent shells, footprints, faces caught on witness accounts. They knew this terrain. It was no random act.
The Indian government, caught off-guard, launched one of its largest crackdowns in recent history. Thousands of armed personnel were dispatched overnight. Checkpoints rose at every mountain pass. Tourists fled en masse, crowding bus stations and airports. The economic pulse of the region, its fragile tourist economy, collapsed in a matter of hours. Hotels emptied. Tour guides wept.
Authorities released sketches of the attackers and began questioning former militants, even those long believed to be reformed. The government is trying to peel back every layer. Phone records, rental logs, old sympathizers — all under scrutiny. There is a growing belief that these men didn’t act alone. This was part of something wider, smarter, and slower.
A group calling itself the “Kashmir Resistance” claimed responsibility. They blamed demographic shifts and cultural dilution. But the real fear isn’t the ideology — it’s the method. Body cams. Disguises. Familiar terrain. It signals a new form of militancy that is no longer amateur, no longer spontaneous.
Modi canceled part of his foreign trip. Amit Shah walked the blood-stained site. Promises of retaliation rang loud. But in Kashmir, retribution and tragedy often follow the same path, over and over again.
For decades, the valley has remained a contested wound between India and Pakistan. Since 1947, its soil has soaked up insurgency, ideology, nationalism, and grief. Over 40,000 people have died in the conflict. But this attack feels different. Not just because of the numbers, but because of the message.
The real war may no longer be over borders. It may be over memory, narrative, and control of perception. And in that war, this massacre becomes more than a statistic. It becomes a story retold by those who filmed it.
Sources:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/23/kashmir-deadly-attack-tourists/83225972007/