On April 22, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Droupadi Murmu and Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid solemn tribute to the 26 victims of the Pahalgam terror attack on its first anniversary, reasserting India's zero-tolerance doctrine on terrorism. The attack on April 22, 2025 in the Baisaran meadow above Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district had killed 25 tourists and one local pony-handler, Adil Hussain Shah, in what became the deadliest civilian terror strike in the Valley in over a decade. The strike was claimed by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy The Resistance Front and was traced to a wider network involving Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen. PM Modi posted, "Remembering the innocent lives lost in the gruesome Pahalgam terror attack on this day last year. They will never be forgotten. India will never bow to any form of terror, and the heinous designs of terrorists will never succeed." A black-marble memorial inscribed with the victims' names now stands on the banks of the Lidder river. India's response had unfolded across two phases: Operation Sindoor on May 7, 2025, in which the Indian armed forces struck nine terror launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and Operation Mahadev, an intelligence-led operation that tracked the suspects from May 22 to July 22 and culminated on July 28, 2025, when the Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police neutralised all three terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack.