India, April 23 -- The Central government on Wednesday announced tough punitive actions against Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, including putting in abeyance the Indus Waters Treaty, closing the integrated check post at Attari and cutting down the strength of the high commissions from 55 to 30.

Twenty-six people, mostly tourists, were gunned down by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on Tuesday. In response to the attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returned to India on Wednesday morning after cutting short his state visit to Saudi Arabia, chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).

In the briefing to the CCS, the cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out, said a g...