New Delhi, April 23 -- Coming down strongly on Pakistan following the dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam in which 26 tourists were killed, India today announced it is holding in abeyance the Indus Waters Treaty, and shutting down the land border check post of Attari. India also declared the Defence advisors in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi as Persona Non Grata and asked them to leave.
India is also cutting down the strength of the High Commissions - of the Pakistan HC in New Delhi, and its own in Islamabad -- to 30 from the present 55 through further reductions, to be effected by May 1, 2025.
The Cabinet Committee on Security, which met in the evening under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was informed of the cross-border linka...