{"id":12534,"date":"2025-07-04T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2025-07-04T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:04:01","slug":"hindu-pilgrimage-begins-in-pahalgam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=12534","title":{"rendered":"Hindu pilgrimage begins in Pahalgam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hindus began a vast month-long pilgrimage in the Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, with many of the faithful starting from near the site where a deadly April attack triggered conflict with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, half a million devotees took part in the Amarnath pilgrimage to a sacred ice pillar located in a cave in the forested Himalayan hills above the town of Pahalgam.<\/p>\n<p>Pahalgam is the site where gunmen on April 22 killed 26 mostly Hindu tourists.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi said the gunmen were backed by Pakistan, claims Islamabad rejected \u2014\u00a0triggering a series of tit-for-tat diplomatic measures that escalated into a four-day conflict.<\/p>\n<p>It was the worst standoff by the nuclear-armed nations since 1999, with more than 70 people killed in missile, drone and artillery fire on both sides, before a May 10 ceasefire.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindus began a vast month-long pilgrimage in the Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, with many of the faithful starting from near the site where a deadly April attack triggered conflict with Pakistan. Last year, half a million devotees took part in the Amarnath pilgrimage to a sacred ice pillar located in a cave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}