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Over to Sidharth Bhatia for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

April 23, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by Prime Minister Modi began late this afternoon in light of the terrorist attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam yesterday in which 26 people, most of them tourists and including one Intelligence Bureau official, a Naval officer and two foreigners, were killed. Foreign secretary Vikram Misri announced that the committee had decided to take diplomatic action against Pakistan – Delhi has, he said, put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance “until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism”; closed the integrated check post in Attari, Punjab; barred Pakistani nationals from travelling to India under SAARC visas; expelled Pakistani defence attaches from the Indian high commission and decided to withdraw its attaches from Islamabad; and reduce the “overall strength of the high commissions” from 55 to 30 by May 1.

Modi, who