India, May 1 -- Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the government will hunt down those behind the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam and the terrorists will have to answer for the heinous act.

"Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we have given a strong reply to everything, be it the north east, the areas of Left Wing Extremism or the shadow of terrorism in Kashmir," Shah said at an event to unveil a statue of Upendra Nath Brahma, the patriarch of Assam's Bodo community, and name a road after him.

"And if those who indulge in terror think that killing 27 citizens was a big victory, I want to tell them that this is not the end. We will hunt down each and every perpetrator," the home minister said, pro...