The slaughter of more than two dozen Indian tourists holidaying in the meadows of the Baisaran valley by alleged Pakistani Islamist gunmen has left two nuclear-armed powers edging closer to the brink of a potentially cataclysmic conflict.The April 22 shooting, in which assailants reportedly singled out anyone who could not recite Islamic verses for execution, constitutes the worst massacre of civilians in since the bombings in 2008.It also represents a 'massive intelligence failure' on the part of India's security services and 'cannot go unpunished', especially amid public outrage and demand for action, according to many Indian analysts.
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