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26th April, 2025 10:34 IST

Security forces have intensified their crackdown on operatives of the banned Islamic militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and suspects linked to the deadly  that claimed 26 lives on 22 April. In a series of targeted actions, multiple houses of active terrorists across south Kashmir were demolished overnight as part of the counterterrorism operations, sources said.

The UN security council yesterday the terrorist attack and said those responsible for it should be punished.

Meanwhile, tensions continues to rise on the India-Pakistan border with exchange of fire between the Indian Army and the Pakistan military.

Blood will flow in rivers if India stops water, threatens Bilawal Bhutto

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has threatened that blood would flow in rivers if water is stopped, in a sharp response to India's decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) after the .

"The Indus is ours and will remain ours — either our water will flow through it, or their blood," the former foreign minister was quoted as saying by The News on Friday while addressing a public rally in the Sukkur area of his home Sindh province.

image Salal Dam on the Chenab river in Reasi district of J&K (photo: PTI) Seven tunnels detected along Indo-Pak border, informs Amit Shah

At the all-party meeting in New Delhi on 24 April, Union home minister Amit Shah said seven tunnels have been detected along the border and 35 terrorists have been killed so far in 2025. The MHA’s presentation said in the decade between June 2014 and May 2024, there were 1,643 terrorist-initiated incidents. There were also 1,925 infiltration attempts and 726 successful infiltrations during this time. As many as 576 security personnel and 1,607 terrorists were killed during the same period.

Time for restraint, says Dawn editorial

In an editorial under the heading ‘Time for Restraint’, popular Pakistan newspaper Dawn commented, “These are dangerous times in the subcontinent, and there is a need for both Pakistan and India to show restraint, and handle the post-Pahalgam developments with sense…

"Foreign minister Ishaq Dar has rightly asked India to share any evidence it may have of Pakistan’s alleged involvement in the Pahalgam atrocity 'with us and the world'. Unless India does so, the opinion that the Modi government is using this country as a scapegoat for its own security failures will only be strengthened."

image Pakistani nationals leave India through the Attari-Wagah border (photo: PTI) 228 Pakistanis living in MP will have to leave India before 27 April deadline, says official

As many as 228 Pakistani nationals living in Madhya Pradesh will have to leave India before the April 27 deadline set by the Centre, an official said on Saturday. "As per the data we have with us, there were 228 Pakistani nationals in Madhya Pradesh. Our work is to inform them (the Centre) about such people," a senior state government official said.

Such people have to leave in keeping with the Centre's directive, he said, adding that the data about Pakistani nationals who have left is expected to arrive by evening. According to sources quoted by a PTI report, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has informed chief ministers of all the states to ensure no Pakistani national stays in India beyond the April 27 deadline.

Divide Pakistan, merge PoK with India: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy

Addressing a candlelight march held in Hyderabad to protest against the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy called for taking back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He said, “We urge you to move forward, and we, the 140 crore Indians, will stand with you. Divide Pakistan into two parts and merge PoK with India, we are all with you. This is not the time to do politics.

(Replug) Residences of LeT commanders, Pahalgam attack suspects demolished across Kashmir

The house of Shahid Ahmad Kuttay, a top LeT commander from Chotipora in Shopian, was reduced to rubble by authorities - Click to read full report.

Arrests for 'pro-Pakistan' posts rise to 9 in Assam

One more person was apprehended in Assam for his alleged pro-Pakistan stand in the wake of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the total number of such arrests in the state to nine, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a post X, on Saturday.

There has always been tension between India, Pak; they'll figure it out: Trump

“I am very close to India and I'm very close to Pakistan, as you know. And they've had that fight for 1,000 years in Kashmir. Kashmir has been going on for 1,000 years, probably longer than that. And it was a bad one yesterday, though, that was a bad one. Over 30 people,” US President Donald Trump said during a press gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Rome.

There have been “tensions on that border for 1,500 years. So you know, the same as it's been, but they'll get it figured out one way or the other. I'm sure... I know both leaders. There is great tension between Pakistan and India. But there always has been", Trump said.

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DGCA issues alert

The DGCA has issued an advisory to airlines on passenger handling measures due to Pakistani airspace curbs resulting in extended flight durations for Indian carriers like Indigo and Air India.

191 Pakistani nationals sent back via Attari-Wagah after 48-hour deadline post Pahalgam attack

Following a 48-hour deadline issued by the Centre in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, 191 Pakistani nationals who were visiting India returned home on Friday, April 25, through the Attari-Wagah border in Amritsar, Punjab, according to officials.

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