Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from our studios in central London.

I'm Julian Marshall.

And we begin in Indian-administered Kashmir in the aftermath of the killing on Tuesday of 26,

mainly Indian tourists by Islamist separatists.

While the search for the killers continues, India has closed its main border post with Pakistan,

which lays claim to the whole of Kashmir, and has been accused of backing separatists there.

Among other measures are the expulsion of Pakistani military advisors from the country's

High Commission in Delhi, the revocation of certain visas for Pakistani nationals, and

the suspension of the decades-old Indus Water Treaty. There's a total strike in the Kashmir Valley

in protest at the atrocity.

Government employees have also observed two-minute silence for the victims.

Our correspondent to Gita Le Maier is in the Kashmiri capital.

I'm at the police control room in Surinagar City,

where the bodies of those who were killed in the Pahelgarm attack

have been kept. We're not allowed to go closer to the police control room beyond a point,

but where I'm standing, I can see scores in scores of military, paramilitary, police personnel

and also dozens of media and camera crews.

We've been told that the families of those who were killed are also here

and they will be brought out in buses and ambulances taken to the airport

from where they will be flown out to different parts of India.

Most of these people were domestic tourists

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