Overview
- Pakistan’s Foreign Office, which issued a statement Thursday, rejected India’s latest attempt to link Pakistan to the 2025 Pahalgam attack.
- Officials responded to Indian media claims that a suspected planner was hiding in Pakistan with a local identity card, a report not supported by independently shared evidence in these accounts.
- Pakistan urged other countries to press India to avoid incendiary talk or steps it said could undercut efforts to keep the region stable.
- The April 22, 2025 assault killed 26 people, most of them tourists, and the fighting that followed ended with a U.S.-announced ceasefire on May 10 after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty.
- Coverage splits by country, with Pakistani outlets calling the revived claims propaganda and an Indian opinion column blaming Lashkar-e-Taiba for the massacre.