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Water & Blood Cannot Flow Together; Tourism and Terror Cannot Work Together
State Times
|June 12, 2025
The barbaric terrorists attack on the Indian tourists at Pahalgam Kashmir on the 22nd April-2025, at the scenic meadows of a natural location in Pahalgam in South Kashmir, known as Baisaran recognized as "mini Switzerland", turned into a scene of carnage as terrorists opened fire on innocent tourists enjoying their sojourn to Pahalgam.
This brutal act marks a grim chapter in Kashmir's long struggle with insurgency and militancy. By attacking a location known globally for its beauty and growing popularity among domestic and foreign visitors, the perpetrators have aimed not just at lives, but at the very essence of humanism and its essence. It created a shivering shock wave across the country and every Indian turned in tears, when it sent a shock wave of acute anguish and anger in the minds of the people of India against Pakistan and its government. 26 innocent tourists were killed at point blank ranges, in presence of their wives and kins, when some of them got severely injured as well. It is the worst type of inhuman Pakistani terrorists attack on the Indian civilians on the grounds of religion and Islam, when the terrorists apparently being Muslims, asked about the religion and religious faith of these innocent Hindu targets for no fault of theirs.
As a measure of punitive and a retaliatory action, when the entire nation is in full anger against the Pakistan being the hub of terrorists actions and terrorism, the Indian defense forces launched a full-fledged retaliatory military attack captioned as Operation Sindoor on the midnight of 7th May 2025, on the nine terror hub location of Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir and destroyed these completely. The Indian armed forces launched precision strikes on terrorist infrastructures at nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. On this occasion while addressing the nation Prime Minister Modi, being equally shaken by such a dastardly and a wicked action of the Pakistan sponsored terrorists on the innocent tourists, made it clear that:-
1. Terror and Talks cannot go together.
2. Terror and trade cannot go together.
3. Water and Blood cannot flow together.
This story is from the June 12, 2025 edition of State Times.
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