India summons high Pakistani diplomat after Kashmir assault kills 26 – stories | India

India has summoned Pakistan’s high diplomat in New Delhi, native media reported on Thursday, a day after it introduced measures to downgrade ties with Islamabad over a lethal militant assault in Kashmir.

A day after suspected militants killed 26 males at a vacationer vacation spot in Kashmir – within the worst assault on civilians within the nation in almost twenty years – Indian international secretary Vikram Misri stated there was cross-border involvement within the assault and that New Delhi would droop a six-decade previous river-sharing treaty, in addition to shut the one land crossing between the neighbours.

India may even pull out its defence attaches in Pakistan and cut back workers numbers at its mission in Islamabad to 30 from 55, Misri stated.

The summons gave discover that every one defence advisers within the Pakistani mission have been persona non grata and given every week to depart, one of many measures Misri introduced on Wednesday.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has known as for an all-party assembly with opposition events on Thursday, to transient them on the federal government’s response to the assault.

In Islamabad, prime minister Shehbaz Sharif was scheduled to carry a gathering of the nationwide safety committee to debate Pakistan’s response, international minister Ishaq Dar stated in a submit on X.

The Indus water treaty, mediated by the World Financial institution, splits the Indus River and its tributaries between the neighbours and regulates the sharing of water. It had till now withstood wars between the neighbours.

India would maintain the treaty in abeyance, Misri stated.

Diplomatic ties between the 2 nuclear-armed rivals have been weak even earlier than the newest measures have been introduced, as Pakistan had expelled India’s envoy and never posted its personal ambassador in New Delhi after India revoked the semi-autonomous standing of Kashmir in 2019.

Tuesday’s assault is seen as a setback to what Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Get together have projected as a serious achievement in revoking the particular standing that Jammu and Kashmir loved, and bringing peace and growth to the long-troubled Muslim-majority area.