India's Response to Pakistan-Based Terrorism: Press Briefing on Strikes

Terrorist Attack in Pahalgam

• 🎯 A terrorist attack in Pahalgam resulted in the deaths of six people, including a Nepali national, marking the deadliest attack in India since the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
• 🔪 The victims were killed at close range with headshots, and their families were deliberately traumatized to deliver a message.
• 📈 The attack aimed to harm growth and development in the region, creating fertile ground for continued cross-border terrorism from Pakistan.
• 🤝 The attackers also sought to provoke communal discord within Jammu and Kashmir and across India, a design that was foiled.

Responsibility and Pakistan's Role

• 📢 The Resistance Front (TRF), a front for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the attack.
• ⚠️ India had previously provided intelligence on TRF to the UN's 1267 sanctions committee, highlighting its role as a cover for Pakistan-based terrorist groups.
• 📞 Investigations revealed communication between terrorists in the region and Pakistan.
• 🤥 Pakistan has a history of misleading the international community, as exemplified by the Sarabjit Singh case, where a declared dead terrorist was later found alive.

India's Military Response

• ⏳ Despite the attack occurring on April 22nd, Pakistan has made no demonstrable steps to act against terrorist infrastructure on its territory.
• ✈️ Intelligence indicated impending further attacks, necessitating a preemptive and proportionate response.
• 💥 India conducted strikes targeting terrorist infrastructure and disabling terrorists likely to be sent across the border.
• 📍 Nine terrorist camps, including the Lashkar training center in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were targeted and successfully destroyed.
• ⚖️ These actions are in line with the UN Security Council's call to hold perpetrators, organizers, financiers, and sponsors of terrorism accountable.