(7 May 2025)
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New Delhi – 7 May 2025
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1. Wide of officials at the news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Vikram Misri, India’s Foreign Secretary:
"It was deemed essential that the perpetrators and planners of the 22nd April attack be brought to justice. Despite a fortnight having passed since the attacks, there has been no demonstrable step from Pakistan to take action against the terrorist infrastructure on its territory or on territory under its control. Instead, all it has indulged in are denials and allegations. Our intelligence monitoring of Pakistan-based terrorist modules indicated that further attacks against India were impending. There was thus a compulsion both to deter and to preempt. Earlier this morning, as you would be aware, India exercised its right to respond and preempt as well as deter more such cross-border attacks."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vikram Misri, India’s Foreign Secretary:
These actions were measured, non-escalatory, proportionate and responsible. They focused on dismantling the terrorist infrastructure and disabling terrorists likely to be sent across to India. You would also recall that the Security Council on 25th April 2025 had issued a press statement on the Pahalgam terror attack, underlining, and I quote, ‘the need to hold perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism accountable, and bring them to justice,’ unquote. India’s latest actions should be seen in this context."
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STORYLINE:
India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations early Wednesday, killing at least 19 people including a child, in what Pakistan’s leader called an act of war.
India also claims there are casualties from Pakistani fire in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
India said it struck infrastructure used by militants linked to last month’s massacre of tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
In. news conference in New Delhi, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told reporters that it was necessary for the perpetrators to "be brought to justice."
Pakistan claimed it shot down several Indian fighter jets in retaliation, as two planes fell onto villages in India-controlled Kashmir. At least three civilians were also killed in the region by Pakistani shelling, the Indian army said in a statement.
Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbors over last month’s militant attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
India has moved to punish Pakistan after accusing it of backing the attack in Pahalgam, which Islamabad denies. The region has been split between India and Pakistan since 1949 and is claimed by both in its entirety.
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