PM Modi Chairs High-Level Meet; Rahul Calls Shah as Pahalgam Terror Attack Sparks Urgent Response | 10 Key Points

PM Modi Chairs High-Level Meet: At least 26 people, two foreign tourists among them, were killed by a group of terrorists who emerged from the dense forests around the trekking paradise of the Baisaran meadows in the upper reaches of Pahalgam on Tuesday (April 22, 2025) afternoon.

Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he had spoken with home minister Amit Shah, Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah and Congress' J&K unit president Tariq Karra about the Pahalgam terror attack to take stock of the situation. The families of victims deserve justice and our fullest support, he said in a post on X.

The Resistance Front, a shadow group of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, claimed responsibility for the attack, but a government statement confirming the same is awaited.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (April 23, 2025) morning, upon his arrival from Saudi Arabia, held a meeting with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the Delhi airport to assess the situation following the terror attack in Pahalgam.

PM Modi chairs key meeting at airport

Immediately on his arrival from Saudi Arabia, PM Modi took a briefing meeting at the airport with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to discuss the situation in view of the Pahalgam terror attack.

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PM Modi cuts short Saudi trip rushed back to India from Saudi Arabia and landed in Delhi on Wednesday morning.

Tight security outside Government Medical College in Anantnag ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to meet people who got injured in the Pahalgam terror attack.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also said he spoke to Amit Shah late Tuesday about what he called the “despicable carnage in Pahalgam”. “The perpetrators of this heinous terror attack must not go unpunished. The innocent victims must get justice,” Mallikarjun Kharge said in a post on X.

Following the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman also cut short her official visit to the US and Peru.

The attack, which happened amid US Vice President JD Vance's India visit, comes at a time tourist and trekking season is picking up momentum. The gunfire broke out around 3 pm in Baisaran, an expansive meadow known as ‘mini Switzerland’ as it is ringed by dense pine forests and mountains.

As news of the terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam broke, The Resistance Front (TRF)—a shadow outfit linked to the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)—claimed responsibility for the assault.

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