India, May 6 -- Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his Jammu and Kashmir trip last month because he received an intelligence report three days before the Pahalgam terror attack. Addressing a rally in Jharkhand, Kharge further said the BJP-led Central government had admitted that the attack was the result of an intelligence failure.

Twenty-six people, mostly tourists, died when terrorists opened fire at a meadow near Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22. India has announced several punitive measures against Pakistan, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, which governed the flow of the Indus River and its tributaries.

"There is an intelligence failure; the government has...