AFP via Getty ImagesTwo weeks after a fatal militant attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir, India started a number of strikes at locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-submitted cashmere.
The Indian Ministry of Defense said that the strikes – with the name “Operation Sindoor” – are part of a “obligation” to hold “responsible” that is responsible for the attack on April 22nd in Pahalgam, Kashmir, in which Indian cashmere, in which 25 Indians and a Nepalesian national national dead remain.
But Pakistan, who contested any participation in this attack, described the strikes as “unprovised”, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the “hideous act of aggression will not be impossible”.
Sharif said on Wednesday on Wednesday that Pahangam’s attack was “not related to Pakistan” and his country was “” accused “for the wrong” reasons “.
The Pakistani military said that at least 31 people were killed on Tuesday evening and 57 were injured. The Indian army said that at least 15 civilians were killed and 43 injured by Pakistani complaints at the side of the border by facto.
The Pakistani military says it shot five Indian aircraft and a drone. India has not yet responded to these requirements.
On Wednesday, Sharif said that the Air Force was her defense – an “answer from our side to you”.
Where did India hit?
Delhi said in the early morning hours of Wednesday morning that nine different locations had been targeted both in Pakistanically administered cashmere and Pakistan.
It is said that these locations are “terrorist infrastructure” places where attacks “were planned and managed”.
It emphasized that it had not hit Pakistani military facilities and said that his “actions were focused, measured and not escalator.”
In the first episodes of the attacks, Pakistan said that three different areas were made: Muzaffarabad and Kotli in Pakistan-submitted cashmere and Bahawalpur in the Pakistani province of Punjab. The Pakistani military spokesman, a lieutenant general Ahmed Sharif, later said six locations were hit.
The Pakistani Minister of Defense Khawaja Asif announced Geotv in the early morning hours of Wednesday that the strikes hit civilian areas, and added that India’s claim to “aim” was wrong.
Why did India started the attack?
After weeks of increasing tensions, the strikes come between the nuclear armed neighbors over the shootings in the picturesque city of Pahalgam.
In the attack on April 22nd by a group of militants, 26 people were killed, with the survivors said that the militants had picked Hindu men out.
It was the worst attack on civilians in the region for two decades and the first major attack on the civilian population since India revoked Article 370 in 2019 that gave Kashmir semi -autonomous status.
After the decision, the region recorded protests, but was also a witness to militance and an enormous increase in the number of tourists.
The murders have triggered a widespread anger in India, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the country would “hunt the suspects to the ends of the earth” and those who have planned and held are punished beyond their imagination.
However, India initially did not name a group that he believed that she was behind the attack in Pahalgam.
However, the Indian police claimed that two of the attackers were Pakistani citizens, with Delhi Pakistan accused of supporting militants – an indictment that contested Islamabad. It is said that there is nothing to do with the attacks on April 22nd.
On May 7, the Indian Foreign Minister Vikram Misri said that the militant group lashkar-e-taiba militant in Pakistan said the attack.
In the two weeks since then, both sides had made tit-for-deed measures against each other-in one thing the spread of diplomats, the suspension of visas and the closing of border crossings.
However, many expected that it would escalate a cross -border strike – as can be seen after Pulwama’s attacks, in which 40 Indian paramilitary staff were dead in 2019.
Why is Kashmir a flash point between India and Pakistan?
Kashmir is completely stressed by India and Pakistan, but is only partially managed by everyone, since they were divided into the independence of Great Britain in 1947.
The countries have waged two wars about it.
In recent times it was attacks by militants who brought the two countries to the edge. Kashmir, which has been administered in India, has experienced an armed uprising against Indian rule since 1989, with militants aimed at security forces and civilians.
After 19 Indian soldiers in Uri, India started “surgical strikes” via the control line – the de facto limit between India and Pakistan – on militant bases.
In 2019, the bomb attack in Pulwama, in which 40 Indian paramilitary staff was dead, triggered the air raids deep in Balakot – the first such action in Pakistan since 1971 – that trigger retaliation and an air fighting struggle.
Neither of the two spiral, but the wider world remains vigilant at the risk of what could happen. Attempts from various nations and diplomats around the world were undertaken to prevent this.
UN General Secretary António Guterres quickly called for “maximum reluctance” – a feeling that was repeated by the European Union and numerous countries, including Bangladesh.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starrer urged the “dialogue” and “de -escalation”.
US President Donald Trump – The one of the first was who replied – said reporters in the White House that he hoped that the fights “end very quickly”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meanwhile said that he had kept an eye on the developments.