Kashmir, a mountainous valley that borders Pakistan and India, has been a center of conflict between the two nuclear-armed countries since the 1947 partition of British India. At the time of the partition, the British agreed to divide their former colony into two countries: Pakistan, with a Muslim majority, and India, with a Hindu majority. Both nations covet Kashmir, which… Read more »
On Tuesday morning, India began launching airstrikes aimed at militant targets in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. This course of action was provoked because India had reason to believe that it was the target of a suicide bomber group which killed 40 Indian troops. Indian foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale appear on national TV hours later, defending that the intended targets were not against… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kashmir-latest-india-pakistan-air-strike-planes-attack-a8800131.html There is a certain symmetry to the way things stand in the highly strung conflict between India and Pakistan – as of Wednesday night, we should add, given just how fast the situation is developing. On Tuesday morning, India took the unprecedented step of launching airstrikes at what it said were militant targets in Pakistani territory across the Kashmir line of control. Hours later, the Indian… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-pakistan-crisis-kashmir-border-shelling-a8804351.html Six civilians have been killed after violence continued to escalate between Indiaand Pakistan in Kashmir. Indian police said two siblings and their mother were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home. In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, government official Umar Azam said Indian troops with heavy weapons “indiscriminately targeted border villagers”, killing a boy and wounding three other people. He added… Read more »
Tensions between Pakistan and India have peaked after a Thursday bombing against armed Indian security forces. 40 confirmed paramilitary deaths have resulted from the horrific event. Responsibility has been claimed by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) jihadist group, based out of Pakistan. This tragedy is the worst India’s seen since Kashmir’s insurgency three decades ago. India’s Lt Gen KJS Dhillon accused Pakistan of… Read more »
In Pakistan, the population is not homogenous. There are many different ethnic and cultural groups that are forced to live together and it often doesn’t result in harmony. Two examples of these conflict areas are Balochistan in the west and Kashmir in the northeast.
France 24 Three Kashmiri rebels and two Indian soldiers have been killed in a fierce gunbattle in the disputed Himalayan region, police said Sunday. The fighting erupted Saturday after Indian troops raided southern Awneera village on a tip that at least seven rebels fighting New Delhi’s rule over Kashmirwere hiding there, said top police officer S.P. Vaid.
BBC An Indian soldier and three militants were killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary camp in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said. The attack on the camp near Srinagar began about 04:00 local time (22:30GMT Monday). It took eight hours for Indian forces to end the gun battle. The attackers’ identities have not been confirmed by officials.