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• Sat, 03 May 2025 02:05 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Traders organisations in UP hold ‘Akrosh’ rally to protest terrorism

  Several traders organisations held a ‘Akrosh rally’ on Friday in Uttar Pradesh to protest against terrorism and demand stringent action against terrorists and their supporters in Pakistan.

  Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait also joined the protest in the evening. During the demonstration, effigies of Pakistan were burnt.

• Sat, 03 May 2025 01:07 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Congress councillor arrested in MP after allegedly raising ‘Pak Zindabad’ slogans

  Madhya Pradesh police on Friday arrested a Congress councillor and one more person in Indore after a video purportedly showed 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans being raised during a protest here to condemn the Pahalgam terror attack, reported PTI.

  The arrested Congress councillor, however, has claimed that the video was fake.

• Sat, 03 May 2025 12:13 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: EU asks India, Pakistan to show restraint amid rising tensions

  The European Union on Friday called on India and Pakistan to show "restraint" and pursue dialogue to defuse tensions. reported PTI

  EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas said in a post on X, “Rising tensions between India and Pakistan are alarming. I urge both sides to show restraint and pursue dialogue to ease the situation. Escalation helps no one.”

  "I spoke to both @DrSJaishankar and @MishaqDar50 today to convey these messages," she added.

• Sat, 03 May 2025 12:11 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Pakistan says they have right to seek UNSC meeting

  Pakistani authorities stated on Friday that they have a “right” to seek a meeting of the United Nations Security Council when “appropriate” as tensions rose with India following the Pahalgam terror attack.

  “We see that all of this that is happening is in the context, in the backdrop of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir,” Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told a press conference, as per PTI.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 11:32 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Congress leader retracts statement against government over Pahalgam attack

  Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday retracted his statement questioning why the government had not taken any concrete steps after the Pahalgam terror attack.

  Responding to a question at the press conference, Channi said, “10 days have gone by but no action has been taken by the government. We demand that the government take steps and the entire country is awaiting to witness what action it takes against Pakistan.”

• Fri, 02 May 2025 10:36 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Congress' new resolution after Pahalgam attack

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: The Congress on Friday urged the Centre to act with firmness in the wake of the Pahalgam attack to "penalise" Pakistan for its continued export of terror and asserted this is a time for demonstrating our collective will as a nation to “teach Pakistan a lesson”.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 09:16 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Kashmir Pandits protest against terror attack in Mumbai

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Hundreds of people belonging to Kashmiri Pandit community on Friday held a protest at Vashi in Navi Mumbai to condemn the Pahalgam terror attack, reported PTI.

  The protesters, including a large number of women, carried placards and shouted 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' slogans at the main square in Vashi in the evening.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 08:41 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Sachin Pilot wants government not to hesitate

  Congress leader Sachin Pilot urged the union government not to hesitate in avenging the Pahalgam terror attack.

  "This attack is not just on tourists, this is an attack on India. The Government has the support of 140 crore Indians and all political parties...Rahul Gandhi and Kharge ji have said that we are with the Government in this hour of crisis but they will have to give a befitting reply to terrorism. All the resources available to the Government of India should be gathered and give such a reply that such an incident can never take place in future. They know better about what has to be done because they have all the Intelligence inputs and resources...Giving free hand to the armed forces is good but they will have to be given directions too as to what they have to do and how they have to do it. They should not hesitate, the entire country is standing with them. We demanded that a Parliament session should be called so that the unity in the country can be displayed before the world...PM did not attend the all-party meeting. We stand with the Government even today but we want the Government to not hesitate. They can take whatever steps they have to take, we stand with them," ANI quoted Pilot as saying.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 07:52 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Babar Azam's Instagram accounts blocked in India

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Cricketers Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan's Instagram accounts have been blocked in India owing to a "legal request to restrict content". Earlier this week, Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan's Olympic gold-winning javelin thrower, also saw his Instagram account blocked in India.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 07:05 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Fawad Khan, Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's Instagram accounts blocked in India

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: The Instagram accounts of Pakistani actor Fawad Khan and singers Atif Aslam and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan were blocked in India on Friday. This comes just a day after accounts of Hania Aamir, Mahira Khan and Ali Zafar were blocked.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 06:42 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif's YouTube channel blocked in India

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif's YouTube channel was blocked in India on Friday amid tension between the two countries following the deadly terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, reportsPTI.

  "The content is currently unavailable in this country because of an order from the government related to national security or public order. For more details about government removal requests, please visit the Google Transparency Report," read a message on the blocked channel.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 06:08 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: No clear strategy has come from govt, Congress says

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: “Even several days after Pahalgam attack, no clear strategy has come from government,” Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge says at CWC meet, according to PTI.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 05:06 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Pakistan hackers attempt to hack Army sites

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: In a fresh wave of cyber provocations, Pakistan-sponsored hacker groups made a series of unsuccessful attempts to breach Indian websites on Thursday, targeting digital platforms linked to children, veterans, and welfare services, reports news agency ANI.

  Indian cybersecurity agencies acted swiftly, detecting and neutralising the threats.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 04:33 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: SC protects family facing deportation to Pakistan

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: The Supreme Court has directed authorities not to deport to six members of a family to Pakistan, who allegedly overstayed their visa, till their citizenship claim is verified.

  According to PTI, A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh without fixing any specific timeline asked the authorities to verify the identity documents such as passports, Aadhaar card, pan card, etc., of the family and other relevant facts, which are brought to their notice.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 03:54 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: UK appeals for measured approach, de-escalation

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: The United Kingdom has called on all parties involved to take a measured approach and urged de-escalation in the aftermath of the “despicable” terrorist attacks in Pahalgam that claimed 26 lives last week.

  “On Sunday, the Foreign Secretary [David Lammy] spoke to both the Indian Foreign Minister and the Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister. We encourage all parties to take a measured approach,” Lord Ray Collins, a minister in the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), said on behalf of the government, according to PTI.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 03:45 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Muhammad Yunus aide's ‘northeast' warning over Pahalgam terror attack

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: ALM Fazlur Rahman, a retired Bangladeshi major general, suggested that his country should invade and occupy all seven northeastern states of India if New Delhi attacks Pakistan, as a retaliation for the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam that killed 26 people.

  Rahman, a former head of the Bangladesh Rifles (now Border Guard Bangladesh) who is considered close to Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus, also called for cooperation with China to achieve the wild idea.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 03:15 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Former J&K DGP on Pahalgam attack

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: On Pahalgam terror attack, former DGP of J&K, SP Vaid, tells ANI: “I don't think Pakistan has reformed. In the past, Pakistan has taken dollars; they were doing this dirty work for the best, as they claim... Even today, Pakistan continues to follow the policy of bleeding India by a 1000 cuts. They continue to use terrorism against India as a statecraft.”

• Fri, 02 May 2025 02:51 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Pahalgam attack survivor recounts horror

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Subodh Patil, a survivor of the Pahalgam terror attack, tells ANI: "... We heard some noise from behind us, but could not recognise it. Then we heard continuous sounds and saw people running. We got scared, so we also started running. We saw a few people sitting together ahead of us, so we also sat down there. A terrorist came and said, “Who all are Hindus among you? Stand up!' Then he started firing... I got shot and fell unconscious. I woke up after many hours and found myself surrounded by dead bodies.”

  He added that the local who brought him up to the meadow recognised him and gave him water and brought him to the exit on his back.

  “From there, he took me downhill on a bike. The army personnel bandaged me and took me to the hospital. From there, I was taken to the army hospital in a helicopter. I was admitted there for seven days,” Patil said.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 02:23 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Amit Malviya reacts to Bilawal Bhutto's remarks

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: After former Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto said that Pakistan has suffered because of its past links to terrorist groups, the BJP IT department in charge, Amit Malviya, said that "the fear is palpable."

  Sharing the news on X, Malviya wrote: "The fear is palpable."

• Fri, 02 May 2025 02:04 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Thousands in J-K rush to erase ‘resistance tattoos’ fearing police crackdown

  Thousands of people in Jammu and Kashmir with so-called "resistance tattoos"—including images of assault rifles inked in defiance of New Delhi's authority—have been queuing up to have them removed, fearing police action following a recent deadly attack on tourists.

  Basit Bashir sees up to 100 people a day, mostly men, at his laser clinic in Srinagar city. He swiftly works over tattoos ranging from AK-47 rifles to Islamic symbols like the crescent moon.

  “I have safely removed AK-47 and similar tattoos from the arms and necks of more than 1,000 young people using laser treatment,” Bashir told AFP at his clinic in Srinagar’s old town, as he used high-intensity light pulses to break down the ink.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 01:36 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Pakistan to allow stranded nationals cross Attari-Wagah border

  Pakistan on Friday announced that it would continue to allow its citizens stranded in India to cross the Attari-Wagah border.

  "We are aware of the media reports indicating that some Pakistani nationals are stranded at Attari. We are open to receiving our citizens in case the Indian authorities allow them to cross the border from their side,” the MoFA spokesperson said.

  Pakistan also criticised India's decision to revoke the visas of its citizens. “The Indian decision to revoke visas of Pakistani citizens is creating serious humanitarian challenges,” the spokesperson added.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 12:47 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Delhi woman pleads for help after Attari-Wagah closure

  A woman from Delhi, married to a Pakistani man, requested the government to help her reunite with her family. Nearly three dozen Pakistan nationals were left stranded on the Indian side of the Attari-Wagah border as Pakistan sealed its gates for citizen transit on Thursday.

  The woman said, " I got married in Pakistan's Karachi, but I am from Delhi. I came here to meet my mother, she is unwell. I came here after 6-7 years. I am not being allowed to leave now...I have been coming here for last 2 days. I have small children with me, they are also upset. I need to leave as soon as possible. I can't let my children go alone (to Pakistan)...my other children are there (Pakistan), they are crying on video calls...it is my request to the govt to reunite me with my family."

  India has decided to allow Pakistani nationals to exit its side of the border to go into Pakistan from the ICP at Attari till further orders, with due clearance.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 12:26 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Navi Mumbai resident injured in terror attack returns home

  Subodh Patil, a resident of Navi Mumbai, who was injured in the terror attack in Pahalgam and later treated in Kashmir, has now returned home. He received a warm welcome from his neighbours and local residents.

  Patil, aged 60, arrived at his home in Royal Heights Apartments in the Kamothe area on Thursday night with his wife.

  The police said that Patil and his wife were part of a group of 39 tourists on a trip to Pahalgam organised by Nisarg Paryatan Tours.

  Patil was shot in the neck when terrorists opened fire at tourists in the Baisaran meadow on 22 April. He had been at a tea stall at the time. He was taken to the Army hospital in Pahalgam and was discharged after recovering.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 12:04 PM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Sanjay Raut slams PM Modi's Mumbai visit

  Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said PM Modi's visit to Mumbai was “without any trace of worry” after the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people.

  “There is anger in the country, and our Prime Minister comes to Mumbai, spending nine hours with film stars, looking comfortable, with not a trace of worry. The credit for this should also go to the Indian Army because they are ready to fight on the border, which is why the Prime Minister is travelling around. Whatever happened and whatever will happen is the credit of the Indian Army, but the leadership is hollow. We will support the government, but we will never condone the mistakes they have made over the last 10 years,” Raut said.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 11:18 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Threat of conflict disrupts tourism in Pakistan's Neelum Valley

  Fears of a military clash with India has prompted tourists visiting Pakistan's Neelum Valley to cancel their hotel bookings in large numbers, the Associated Press reported.

  Hotel owner Rafaqat Hussain said, “Most tourists have left and returned to their cities because there is a risk of war.”

  Neelum Valley, less than 3km from the Line of Control, reportedly attracts some 300,000 tourists each summer.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 10:52 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: BJP leader says Pakistan already ‘half empty’

  BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Friday said that Pakistan was already “half empty” in anticipation of a response from India for the April 22 Pahalgam attack.

  "Although the attack has not occurred, Pakistan is already half empty. The Army chief there sent his children and wife abroad. Pakistan's Foreign Minister has fled with his family," Ghosh told reporters.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 10:33 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Sanjay Singh's new profile picture on PoK
• Fri, 02 May 2025 10:21 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: 'Few crackers on border won't work,' says Javed Akhtar

  Lyricist Javed Akhtar on Thursday requested the Central Government to take "solid steps" against terrorism and said he believes that “a few crackers on the border” are still not enough for attacks on innocent civilians in Pahalgam.

  “This has happened not just once but several times. I request that the Central Government take immediate steps. A few crackers on the border will not work. Take a solid step now. Do something so that the mad Army chief there (Pakistan), no sensible person can make a speech like he does. He says that Hindus and Muslims are different communities. He does not even care that there are Hindus in his country, too. So, do they have no respect? What kind of man is he? They should get a befitting reply so that they remember. They will not pay heed to anything less. I don't know much about politics. But I do know that it is time for ‘aar ya paar’,” said Akhtar while addressing the Maharashtra Festival 2025.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 09:55 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: BJP's Nishikant Dubey claims ‘10,000 people killed, disappeared in Pakistan’

  BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday claimed that nearly 10,000 people have been killed and disappeared in Pakistan after the country's army ordered the terrorist Hafiz Saeed and fugitive Dawood Ibrahim to "eliminate the Baluchis".

  "The army has ordered the bloodthirsty Hafiz Saeed and Dawood Ibrahim to eliminate the Baluchis and protesters from India. In the last 15 days, about 10 thousand people have been killed and disappeared. Pakistan is in pieces," Dubey wrote on X.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 09:22 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: ‘Pakistan swiftly expanded its ceasefire violations,’ says defence spokesperson

  A defence spokesperson in Jammu said the unprovoked ceasefire violation last night began as unprovoked small arms firing at several posts along the LoC in Kupwara and Baramulla districts of north Kashmir, and swiftly expanded to the Poonch sector and subsequently to the Akhnoor sector of the Jammu region.

  Small arms firing was also reported along the LoC in the Sunderbani and Naushera sectors of Rajouri district, later expanding to the Pargwal sector along the International Border in Jammu district.

  Indian Army troops responded in a calibrated and proportionate manner, the spokesperson added.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 09:03 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: ‘Ready to fight to the last to save our river,’ says PPP's Bilawal Bhutto

  Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari declared that his country will ‘fight to the last’ to protect its water rights on the Indus River.

  Bhutto courted a controversy in India when he said, "The Indus is ours and will remain ours—either our water will flow through it, or their blood."

• Fri, 02 May 2025 08:44 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: ‘Over 10 lakh cyber attacks targeted India,’ says Maharashtra Cyber cell

  The Maharashtra Cyber cell on Thursday said it recorded over 10 lakh attacks targeting India post the Pahalgam attack on April 22.

  "These attacks targeting Indian websites and portals were made from Pakistan, the Middle East, Indonesia and Morocco," said Yashasvi Yadav, Additional Director General of Police, Maharashtra Cyber Department.

  The department has prepared an advisory asking government agencies to strengthen their cyber infrastructure.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 08:20 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: Jaisalmer man arrested for suspected spying to help Pakistan's ISI

  A man from Jaisalmer was arrested by state intelligence for allegedly spying to aid Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), an official release said.

  The man visited Pakistan in 2013 and was allegedly lured with money and received espionage training. He continued to meet Pakistani intelligence officers and shared sensitive information about the international border in Jaisalmer, a release from the state intelligence claimed.

• Fri, 02 May 2025 08:03 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: RSS leader cites ‘intolerance’ among communities in Pakistan

  Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) joint general secretary Krishna Gopal alleged that different communities living in Pakistan lack internal cohesion due to the prevalence of “intolerance.”

  At a book launch event on Thursday, the RSS leader said, "The world is facing a dangerous thing, intolerance. Pakistan was founded, and it would have been good if the Muslims had remained together peacefully. However, after the formation of Pakistan, tensions arose between those who speak Bangla and Urdu... Pakistan is still facing that intolerance. Sindhis, Pashtuns, Balochs do not want to live together."

• Fri, 02 May 2025 07:50 AM

  Pahalgam attack news live updates: US says PM Modi has its ‘full support’

  US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has got the full support of the Trump administration, adding that they are in constant communication with India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack.

  “We are monitoring closely. Yesterday, the Secretary spoke with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. As President Donald Trump articulated to Prime Minister Modi last week, the United States stands strong with India against terrorism, and Prime Minister Modi has our full support,” she said.