This week, Hindus across the globe pay tribute to the 26 innocent tourists brutally murdered in Pahalgam (Jammu and Kashmir, India) by Islamist terrorists. The attack occurred at 14:30 on 22nd April 2025, in the scenic Baisaran meadow. Eyewitnesses reported how terrorists singled out Hindu men by asking whether to recite Islamic verses, then shooting them point blank when they couldn’t. 24 Indian citizens were murdered; Atul S. Moni, Sanjay L. Lali, Dileep Dasali, Hemant S. Joshi, Santosh Jaghda, Kastuba Ganvotay, Bharat Bushan, Manju Nath Rao, Madhusudan Somisetty, Shaileshbhai H. Kalathia, Yatesh Parmar and his son Sumit Parmar, Sameer Guhar, Bitan Adhikari, Sushil Nathyal, Syed A. H. Shah, Vinay Narwal, Neeraj Udhwani, Shubham Dwivedi, Manish Ranjan, N. Ramachandra (Kerala), Dinesh Agarwal, J. Sachandra Moli and Tage Hailyang (Arunachal Pradesh). A Nepali citizen, Sudeep Nepal, was also counted amongst the dead.
Victims included newly weds, shot in front of their wives. The attack was carried out but The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of Pakistan-based UN-designated terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). In response Indian military launched Operation Sindoor in early May 2025, where missile strikes destroyed the headquarters of terrorist organisations sponsored and armed by Pakistan. Sindoor marked a dramatic shift in India’s foreign policy, showing the world that Hindu lives matter, and Hinduphobic attacks by Pakistan on Indian soil will no longer go unpunished.