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- India’s Foreign Ministry said Pakistani nationals will not be allowed to travel to India under the SAARC visa exemption programme. Any visas previously issued under this scheme “are deemed cancelled” and any Pakistani national in India with one of these visas has 48 hours to leave.
- India’s defence minister has pledged a swift response to those who carried out and planned the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people, all men, in Indian-administered Kashmir.
- Security forces are searching for the gunmen behind the attack – the disputed region’s worst attack on civilians in years.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who cut short a state visit to Saudi Arabia, decried the “heinous act” and pledged that the attackers “will be brought to justice”.
- A little-known group, The Resistance Front, claimed responsibility for the attack in a social media message, expressing discontent that more than 85,000 “outsiders” had been settled in the region, spurring a “demographic change”.