New Delhi, April 24 -- India responded to the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam by announcing that it would shut the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari in Amritsar along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab with immediate effect.

India also decided to suspend the Indus water treaty until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism. At least 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed in a terror attack at the picturesque Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam in Anantnag district on April 22.

India's decision to downgrade diplomatic ties with Pakistan in view of cross-border links to the Pahalgam terror attack was taken in the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting held at Prime Minister Narendra...