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Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday urged Russia, China and other Western countries to join the probe in the Pahalgam terror attack to ascertain whether ‘India was telling the truth’. Asif made this remark while talking to a state-run Russian news agency. 

“I think Russia or China or even Western countries can play a very, very positive role in this crisis and they can even set up an investigation team that should be assigned this job to investigate whether India or Modi is lying or he is telling the truth. Let an international team find out," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

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Khawaja Asif said India should present evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the act and only empty statements were being made so far on their role in the barbaric killings. 

"Let's find out who is the culprit and the perpetrator of this incident in India, in Kashmir, talk or empty statements have no effect. There must be some evidence that Pakistan is involved or that these people were supported by Pakistan. These are just statements, empty statements and nothing more," he added, as per the aforementioned news agency.

As many as 26 persons, mostly tourists, were killed on April 22 after a group of armed militants showered bullets at them indiscriminately. The Resistance Front (TRF), widely believed to be an offshoot of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the attack, further straining the already tense relations between India and Pakistan.

In a series of measures, India took the significant step of suspending the Indus Water Treaty. New Delhi also announced that visas of Pakistani nationals stand cancelled and they should leave the country by April 27, barring a medical visa, which was made valid till April 29. In addition, India closed the Attari border and downgraded its diplomatic presence in Pakistani consulates. 

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In a retaliatory move, Pakistan swiftly responded by shutting down the Wagah Border and ordering Indian citizens to leave the country. Furthermore, Islamabad made the decision to revoke the Simla Agreement, a pivotal accord signed between the two nations in 1972.