Pm Modi Cuts Short Saudi Trip After Pahalgam Attack, To Land In India Early Wednesday

Hours aft gunmen opened occurrence connected visitors successful Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley, sidesplitting 26 and injuring dozens, Prime Minister Narendra Modi trim short his Saudi Arabia sojourn and is flying backmost to India tonight, skipping a authorities meal hosted by Riyadh. 

Originally scheduled to return Wednesday night, nan PM, according to authorities sources, will now onshore successful Delhi early Wednesday morning.

The attack, described arsenic nan worst successful caller times successful Jammu and Kashmir, unfolded successful Baisaran Valley—a scenic meadow accessible only connected ft aliases horseback. Witnesses said terrorists emerged from nan woods and opened occurrence indiscriminately astatine tourists. 

Disturbing visuals from nan tract showed bodies strewn crossed nan writer and survivors, including women, crying retired for help.

Military choppers were deployed for removal efforts. Union Home Minister Amit Shah rushed to Srinagar, wherever he convened a high-level information reappraisal gathering pinch each agencies. Shah had earlier spoken to PM Modi, who directed him to sojourn nan tract personally.

Soon aft nan attack, Shah had besides chaired a gathering successful Delhi pinch Intelligence Bureau Chief Tapan Deka, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, CRPF main Gyanendra Pratap Singh, and J&K DGP Nalin Prabhat. Army officials joined via video conferencing. Shah besides said pinch Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and erstwhile Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

PM Modi, condemning nan attack, said, “Our resoluteness to conflict coercion is unshakable and it will get moreover stronger. Their evil schedule will ne'er succeed.”

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha echoed nan sentiment, stating that an anti-terror cognition had been launched and "the perpetrators of nan Pahalgam onslaught will person to salary a very dense value for their heinous act".

The timing of nan onslaught coincided pinch nan PM’s negotiated engagement successful Saudi Arabia and nan sojourn of US Vice President JD Vance to India. Vance said nan “devastating violent attack” had profoundly affected him. “Over nan past fewer days, we person been flooded pinch nan beauty of this state and its people,” he said.

US President Donald Trump besides reacted connected Truth Social: “Deeply disturbing news retired of Kashmir. The United States stands beardown pinch India against terrorism. We believe for nan souls of those lost, and for nan betterment of nan injured. Prime Minister Modi, and nan unthinkable group of India, person our afloat support and deepest sympathies. Our hearts are pinch you all.”

Published on: Apr 22, 2025 11:33 PM IST