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    <title>Qualla: 2025 Pahalgam Attack</title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[On 22 April 2025, gunmen entered the Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam and killed 26 civilians -- the deadliest terrorist attack on Indian soil since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, triggering a military confrontation between India and Pakistan.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>2025 Pahalgam Attack: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Baisaran Valley is the kind of place that appears on tourist brochures: alpine meadows ringed by pine forest, pony rides along the river, families posing for photographs against the Himalayan backdrop above Pahalgam. On 22 April 2025, at least three armed men emerged from those surrounding forests carrying M4 carbines and AK-47s. They separated the men from the women and children, asked each man his religion, and opened fire. Twenty-six people were dead before the shooting stopped -- twenty-five tourists and one local Muslim pony ride operator who died trying to wrestle a gun from the attackers.]]></description>
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      <title>2025 Pahalgam Attack: The Killing Ground</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The attackers wore camouflage and entered the valley through the dense forest that borders the tourist area. Survivors described a methodical process: the gunmen mingled with the crowd, then herded groups of visitors toward armed accomplices positioned deeper in the meadow. Men w...]]></description>
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      <title>2025 Pahalgam Attack: Claim, Denial, and the Shadow of Lashkar-e-Taiba</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Resistance Front, a group believed to be a proxy of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility twice -- once on the day of the attack and again the following day. TRF issued a statement framing the massacre as opposition to non-local settlement in Kashmir foll...]]></description>
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      <title>2025 Pahalgam Attack: From Meadow to Battlefield</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[India's response escalated rapidly. The government accused Pakistan of supporting cross-border terrorism, suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, expelled Pakistani diplomats, and closed the border. Pakistan rejected the accusations, retaliated by suspending the Simla Agreement, restr...]]></description>
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      <title>2025 Pahalgam Attack: Operation Mahadev</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Indian security forces launched Operation Mahadev to track down the perpetrators in the dense forests around Pahalgam. The hunt lasted months, complicated by the rugged terrain and the attackers' familiarity with the mountains. On 28 July 2025, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah info...]]></description>
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      <title>2025 Pahalgam Attack: What Baisaran Means Now</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Pahalgam attack sits within a longer pattern of violence targeting civilians in Kashmir, from the massacres of Amarnath pilgrims in 2000, 2001, and 2002 to the bus ambush near Reasi in 2024. But the scale of the 2025 attack and the speed of its geopolitical consequences set i...]]></description>
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