NEW DELHI – Indian government on Friday has blamed Pakistan for Pulwamaattack and threatened to isolate it at international level.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said those behind the terror attackwould pay a “very heavy price” and had made a “huge mistake”.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley said they will take all possible diplomaticsteps to ensure “complete isolation” of Pakistan and has withdrawn MostFavoured Nation status to the country.
On the other hand, Indian forces have launched search operation in thevalley after the blast.
Earlier, at least 44 Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed on Thursdayin Indian-occupied Kashmir in one the deadliest attacks on governmentforces there, police said.
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The suicide bombing outside Srinagar claimed by an Islamist group is likelyto ratchet up tensions between nuclear-armed arch rivals India andPakistan, with New Delhi long accusing Islamabad of supporting militants.
The attack saw explosives packed inside a van rip through buses in a convoyof 78 vehicles carrying some 2,500 members of the paramilitary CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF).
Two blue buses carrying around 35 people each bore the brunt of the massiveblast, heard miles away, around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the city ofSrinagar on the main highway to Jammu.
