Reaction in India
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee termed the massacre "a most inhuman and brutal carnage". Hundreds of army personnel and their family members held candlelight prayers on Friday night in memory of those killed in one of the worst ever terrorist strikes in Jammu and Kashmir, in May.
Jaswant Singh, the then Minister for External Affairs, writes in his book A Call To Honour - In Service of Emergent India that the Kaluchak incident was the last straw that almost led to war between India and Pakistan (see 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff), and was the closest that Pakistan and India came to war.
The then Indian Union Minister of State for External Affairs Omar Abdullah blamed Pakistan for this massacre and argued for escalating the response against Pakistan because of the sheer barbarity of this attack. Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah also blamed Pakistani intruders calling them animals.
Members of Parliament of India unanimously blamed Pakistan for this attack.
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