India announced in the early Wednesday that two weeks after more than two dozen civilians, it was killed in a terrorist attack in Kashmir in India.
The Indian government said its armed forces had hit nine locations in Pakistan and on the Pakistan side of the controversial cashmere region. Pakistani military officers said that five places had been hit in the province of Punjab and his part of Kashmir.
While India in recent years in Pakistanically administered Kashmir and areas near rising tensions, which attacked Punjab on Wednesday, Punjab, in Pakistani territory outside the controversial region, was an escalation in the conflict between the two nuclear countries.
India said Pakistan said that after they had gained evidence that “had been pointed out to the clear participation of Pakistani terrorists in the past month of civilians in a tourist area in Kashmir. It also added that only “well -known terrorist” had targeted it.
In its own statement, the Pakistani government described the Indian strikes “an unprovoked and obvious act of war”, which “had injured Pakistan’s sovereignty”. Pakistani officials also said that civilians had been killed in the Indian strikes, an assertion that could not be confirmed independently.
Pakistan said that the Indian actions “are not unanswered” and that it would react at “time and place of his own choice”. Pakistani military officers said they had started a “measured but powerful” answer.
In the White House, President Trump described the escalation between India and Pakistan as a “shame”.
“We just heard about it,” he said about the Indian strikes. “You fought for a long time. I just hope that it will end very quickly.” Shortly after the strikes, the Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval informed about the State Secretary Marco Rubio, according to the Indian officials.
A spokesman for the UN Secretary General António Guterres called for the two sides and added: “The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan.”
But the scale and type of attacks of India are likely to cause “significant retaliation” by Pakistan, ASFANDYAR told me, a high -ranking scholarship holder in the Southasia program of the Stimson Center in Washington.
After terrorist attacks in the Indian Kashmir in 2016 and 2019, India carried out only limited strikes in the Pakistanically controlled area. But this time India “exceeded two significant thresholds in his military campaign” by reaching a large number of locations in Pakistan and hit the Pakistani core country in Punjab told me.
As India prepared for potential retaliation by Pakistan, military officers said that all the country’s air defense units had been activated along the border, India’s public broadcaster reported. Airlines said that several airports, including those in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian side of Kashmir, were closed for civil trips.
The exact nature of the strikes on Wednesday – regardless of whether they were fired from India, or Indian fighter planes that crossed to Pakistan – was unclear. The Pakistani military said that Indian aircraft had not entered Pakistan airspace when carrying out the attacks.
The residents of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani part of Kashmir, reported that hearing jets overview over the overview of the overlaps. They said that a location in a rural area near Muzaffarabad, which was once used by Lashkar-E-Taiba, a militant-based militant group, apparently used the strikes.
A spokesman for the Pakistani army said that four other places were also attacked. One was Bahawalpur in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, the place of a religious seminar associated with Jaish-e-Mohammad, another militant group in Pakistan; The others were Kotli and Bagh in Pakistan-submitted Kashmir and Muridke in Punjab.
The Indian armed forces call their military surgery Sindoor, an indication of the red vermilion that Hindu women wear in their hair after marriage. It refers to the cruel nature of the terrorist attack two weeks ago, in which many women saw their husbands killed in front of them.
“Victory for mother India,” wrote Rajnath Singh, India’s Minister of Defense, about X.
During the attack on April 22, militant opened fire on tourists in the Indian Kashmir region, killed 26 and injured more than a dozen others.
The massacre was one of the worst attacks on Indian civilians for decades, and India quickly indicate that Pakistan, his neighbor and archfeird, was involved. The two countries have waged several wars to Kashmir, a region that they share, which, however, all claims.
The Pakistani government contested the participation in the attack, and India has only presented a few evidence to support its accusations. Shortly after the rush, India announced a flood of punitive measures against Pakistan, including the threat of disturbing the flow of a large river system that delivers with water.
In Kashmir, the Indian armed forces started comprehensive clamping and arrested hundreds when they continued their hunt for the perpetrators. And India and Pakistan repeatedly exchanged small weapon fire along the border in the days after the attack.
The strikes of India on Wednesday are an intensification of the conflict. The Pakistani government previously vowed to react to Indian aggression in kind, and both nations have the ability to cause enormous damage.
India has long accused Pakistan of grasping separatist violence in the separatist in Kashmir, a picturesque and ethnically diverse valley in the Himalaya mountains. The fate of Kashmir was undecided in 1947 when the British India, his former colony, divided into two countries – Pakistan, which has a Muslim majority, and India, mainly from Hindus.
Shortly afterwards, Kashmir’s Hindu Monarch, who had initially decided to keep the Muslim majority region independent, sent to India when Pakistan sent a military force to fill parts of its territory. At the moment, both nations manage some of Kashmir while claiming as a whole, with Kashmiris say little.
Since a war between the two nations in the region in 1999 and an increase in separatist uprising, Kashmir has remained one of the militarized areas in the world. Since then, the countries have repeatedly reached the edge of the war, also in 2019, when a bomb attack in Kashmir killed at least 40 Indian soldiers.
This bomb attack, which was claimed by the militant Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, triggered an Indian air raid in Pakistan, and an Indian jet was shot down. Tensions between the countries when Pakistan released the pilot.
AnuPreta that And Hari Kumar Reported reports.