Kashmir updates: Pakistan claims Pahalgam attack ‘false flag operation’

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• Speaking to Al Jazeera, Pakistan’s Defence Minister said the government suspects “very strongly that it was a false flag operation”.
• Pakistan has issued retaliatory diplomatic measures against India, including the closing of airspace and land border, and says any attempt to divert the waters of the Indus River will be an “act of war”.
• Police in Indian-administered Kashmir claim to have identified three suspects, two of whom are Pakistani, in Tuesday’s Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people.
• India’s PM Modi vowed to hunt the Pahalgam gunmen to the “ends of the earth” in a speech today.
• 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”.