The spark for the latest conflict between India and Pakistan, the most expansive struggle between the two countries for decades, was a terrorist attack on civilians in Kashmir last month.
The Indian government had projected calm on the side of the controversial cashmere region. A group of militants managed to praise this picture. They came out of the forest with a picturesque picnic area and killed 26 men. The men, almost all of Hindu, were selected for their religion, and many of them were killed in front of their women and families, according to witness reports.
A little -known group called the resistance front responsibility. The Indian government said that the group was a front for a wider terrorist apparatus that was developed from Pakistan. Pakistan rejected these claims.
Here is what we know about the groups that India had targeted in his military strikes.
What are the two main groups to which India aims?
Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was founded in the 1980s, has long been suspected of planning some of the worst terrorist attacks in India from Pakistan. In 2005 it was added to a United Nations sanction list.
One of the group’s most fatal attacks was a 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, in which more than 160 people were killed. Almost a dozen armed men arrived on boats and held hostages in a large hotel for days. One of the attackers was captured alive, and a large part of the report about the connections of the attack to Pakistan came from his confessions. He was convicted in India in 2010 and executed in 2012.
Pakistan has confirmed the connections of Lashkar-E-Taiba to previous violence in India, but says that the group was banned and dissolved a long time ago. The founder of the group, Hafiz Saeed, is free despite short prison period, and Indian officials say that the group continues their activities through deck organizations and offshoots such as the resistance front.
Jaish-e-Mohammed, the second group that announced Indian officials that they had targeted their attacks, had long had a large hand in military dance in Kashmir. However, the activities were not limited to the region.
The founder of the group, Masood Azhar, was locked up in Kashmir in India in India in the 1990s for militant activity, but was released in 1999 as the framework of a hostage agreement. The kidnappers took a flight from the Indian airlines to Kandahar, Afghanistan, and demanded the release of Mr. Azhar and other militants to free more than 150 passes.
Jaish-e-Mohammed is accused of several fatal attacks in Kashmir, including the bombing of an Indian military convoy from 2019, which brought the two countries into a short conflict. It was also behind a fatal attack on the Indian parliament in 2001.
What were the goals of the youngest strikes in India?
India’s armed forces said they had hit nine locations in Pakistan early Wednesday morning, including facilities associated with the two terrorists.
The two sides had very different claims about how many people were killed and how much damage was damaged in the infrastructure of the groups. These claims could not be verified independently.
Indian officials who informed legislators said they killed around 100 terrorists in their strikes. The Pakistani military set the number of deaths to 31.
On site it was clear that many of the strikes had hit institutions in connection with the two terrorist groups, although it was not clear whether the facilities were current or old.
In Bahawalpur, in Punjab, Pakistani province killed a strike on a strike connected to Mr. Azhar on 13 people, including 10 members of the family of Mr. Azhar. It was the most deadliest of the strikes.
Another strike in Muridke, a city about 40 km from the city of Pakistani Lahore, hit a building complex that was previously used as the headquarters of Lashkar-E-Taiba and killed three people. Pakistani officials, however, said that they had taken over the building in 2019 after banning another Lashkar front outfit.
Four other coordinated locations are said to be small seminars and mosques that were connected to the militant groups, in Punjab and part of Kashmir in Punjab and Pakistanically.