Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the punishment meted out by India for the Pahalgam will be “ what the terrorists imagine”.

Twenty-six persons were killed and 17 others were injured in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.

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• Modi vowed that India “ every terrorist and their backers” involved in the attack and will “pursue them to the ends of the Earth”. India’s “spirit will never be broken by terrorism”, he said at a public meeting in Bihar’s Madhubani. “Terrorism will not go unpunished. Every effort will be made to make sure that justice is done,” Modi said. “The entire nation is one in this resolve.”
• The Congress’ working committee on Thursday said that the “deliberate targeting of Hindus was done to inflame passions” in India and appealed for calm “in the face of this grave provocation”. In its resolution, the party demanded a comprehensive analysis of the “intelligence failures and security lapses” that led to the attack. The Opposition party also accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of “exploiting” the attack through official and “proxy social media platforms to sow further discord, mistrust, polarisation and division”.
• The Union government on Thursday evening...