TIME TO STRIKE PAKISTAN VERY HARD

India should launch cruise missile strikes, airstrikes and kamikaze drone strikes against terrorist training camps deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), argues

- JYOTI SINGH

On April 22, 2025, at least four to five Islamic militants (exact numbers still unknown), brutally massacred 28 tourists at Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam, Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir. Out of the 28 tourists killed, 26 were Indian nationals whereas two were foreign citizens from Nepal and United Arab Emirates (UAE). 20 others were injured in the attack. A local pony guide, who was a Muslim, was also killed by the jihadi terrorists when he tried to snatch an assault rifle from a terrorist, for protecting the tourists from being murdered. The dead included those from the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Gujarat, Haryana, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh Those injured were from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The casualties also included an Indian Navy officer and an Intelligence Bureau (IB) official.

The rabid terrorists had a free run, forced the tourists to reveal their religious identities by asking them to recite 'Kalimas' and removed their pants to check circumcision, after which the insurgents shot as many non-Muslims as they could with their AK-47 automatic assault rifles and M-4 carbines.

The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the attack. Intelligence agencies later identified Saifullah Kasuri (alias Khalid), a top LeT commander, as the mastermind of the massacre. Accounts from survivors indicated that an attacker spared a woman saying that she was being spared so she could narrate the horrors of the brutality to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The diplomatic ramifications of this attack were such that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to cut short his official visit to Saudi Arabia and had to return to New Delhi in the wee hours of April 23.