Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir — Suspected rebels killed at least 26 people on Tuesday in the picturesque tourist resort of Pahalgam in the deadliest such attack in a quarter-century in Indian-administered Kashmir, setting off a chain of tit-for-tat moves by India and Pakistan and raising the spectre of a full-fledged conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
The attack in Kashmir’s southern district of Anantnag prompted anger across India. It came amid the peak tourist season as hundreds of thousands of tourists were holidaying in the region, which has been racked by a three-decade armed rebellion.
