Baramullah (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 24 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir government has issued an order directing all the employees in Baramulla under the PM Package to work from home till April 27.
The order has been issued by the chief education officer (CEO), Baramulla, to ensure the safety of the PM Package employees following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in which 26 people were killed.
The CEO has ordered that “all employees engaged under the PM Package are hereby directed to work from home for the duration of this week with immediate effect up to Sunday.”
PM Package was rolled out in 2008-09 for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants in the Kashmir Valley.
Terrorists attacked tourists at Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam on Tuesday, killing 25 Indian nationals and one Nepali citizen while leaving several others injured, in one of the deadliest attacks in the valley since the 2019 Pulwama strike in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed.
Following the attack, India has taken strong countermeasures against Pakistan for its support of cross-border terrorism.
In the CCS meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah, India decided to hold the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.
India has also decided to shut the integrated Attari Check Post with immediate effect. Further, the country has decided to cancel any visas provided SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES) and ordered Pakistan to leave the country within 48 hours.
India declared Defence/Military, Naval and Air Advisors in the Pakistani High Commission as Persona Non Grata and ordered to leave India within a week.
As a security measure, India has decided to withdraw its own Defence/Navy/Air Advisors from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. These posts in the respective High Commissions are deemed annulled. Five support staff of the Service Advisors will also be withdrawn from both High Commissions.
The overall strength of the high commissions will be brought down to 30 from the present 55 through further reductions, to be effective by May 1, 2025.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced the decisions in a press briefing on Wednesday after the CEC meeting. (ANI)