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/india-kashmir-pakistan-threat-imran-khan-jem-car-bomb-paramilitary-a8786196.html Mothers in Kashmir should tell their sons to put down their arms or be prepared to see them dead, India’s top military commander in the contested region has said after an unprecedented suicide bomb attack. Responsibility for the bomb, which killed 40 paramilitary police, has been claimed by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) jihadist group. Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has now responded for the first time, saying… Read more »
More than 100 security forces members have been killed in a Taliban assault on a military base in eastern Afghanistan, an official said. An interior ministry spokesperson said a suicide car bomber struck the base first, followed by insurgents who opened fire at the Afghan forces in Maidan Shar, the capital of Maidan Wardak province. An official in the defence… Read more »