Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "2025 Pahalgam attack" in English language version.
opposed the granting of residency permits to "outsiders", who critics say could help India change the demography of the disputed region
The controversial Article 35A bars female residents of Jammu and Kashmir from property rights in the event that they marry a person from outside the state... Critics of Article 35A say the provision... discriminates against women.
Indian survivors of Kashmir attack say gunmen asked if they were Hindus and opened fire
Most of the victims were Hindu men
Outsiders were barred from permanently settling, buying land, or holding local government jobs. However, Kashmiris enjoyed full rights to live and work elsewhere in India—a legal asymmetry that critics called discriminatory.
Kashmiris could migrate, work, and own property across India, but non-Kashmiris were denied reciprocal rights in Jammu and Kashmir. This imbalance institutionalized discrimination.
Kashmiris themselves faced no such restrictions elsewhere in India—a disparity that fueled accusations of constitutional exceptionalism.
Meanwhile, U.S. 17 July designated The Resistance Front – responsible for April attack – as "Foreign Terrorist Organization" and labelled it proxy for Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.
recite the Kalima — a Muslim declaration of faith — to identify and then execute non-Muslims
The Resistance Front conducted limited attacks in Kashmir until April 2025, when it killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam, an attack that resulted in India and Pakistan's conflict in May 2025.
Lashkar's wing in Indian Kashmir, The Resistance Front, was blamed by India for an attack on tourists in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.
Kashmiris faced no equivalent barriers in the rest of India—a lopsided arrangement that contradicted India's constitutional principles of equality.
asked the Hindu men to separate from the Muslim men
Terrorists asked my father to recite Islamic verse before shooting him
Kashmir has long served as a crucible of India Pakistan hostility, but the Pahalgam attack— attributed to the Pakistan-backed group The Resistance Front (TRF), which is a front for the UN-proscribed Pakistani terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba—has unfolded in a regional context far more complex than previous crises.
...TRF claimed responsibility for this attack, not once but twice -within a few hours after the incident on the 22nd of April, and then again on the morning of 23rd April.
an unspecified number of militants
A list of the victims circulating online, which was verified by local officials in Kashmir, showed that 25 of the 26 killed were Hindus.
witness accounts in Indian media suggested Hindus had been singled out by the militants
When the militants reached their tent, Asavari said they asked her father, Santosh Jagdale, to come out and recite an Islamic verse.
The Resistance Front conducted limited attacks in Kashmir until April 2025, when it killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam, an attack that resulted in India and Pakistan's conflict in May 2025.
Lashkar's wing in Indian Kashmir, The Resistance Front, was blamed by India for an attack on tourists in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.
According to data shared with the Rajya Sabha in 2021, as many as 185 non-locals bought land in J&K since the Centre abrogated provisions of Article 370 in 2019
[A government spokesman] said 11,398 West Pakistan refugees, 415 Valmiki community members, 10 Gorkha community members and 12,340 registered migrants have been issued the certificates so far.
All these initiatives have sparked fears of demographic change, militarised settlements, dispossession and alienation of land in Kashmir.
In 2020, it is believed that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) established The Resistance Front (TRF) as a proxy organization. The group was one of five organizations to appear in Jammu and Kashmir that year ...
The Resistance Front conducted limited attacks in Kashmir until April 2025, when it killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam, an attack that resulted in India and Pakistan's conflict in May 2025.
A list of the victims circulating online, which was verified by local officials in Kashmir, showed that 25 of the 26 killed were Hindus.
Lashkar's wing in Indian Kashmir, The Resistance Front, was blamed by India for an attack on tourists in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.
