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India launched strikes against Pakistan on May 7 and Pakistan claimed that it shot down five Indian Air Force fighter jets, in the most serious confrontation between the two nuclear powers in more than two decades.
Tensions have been mounting between the two countries since the April 22 terrorist attack on the resort town of Pahalgam in India’s Jammu and Kashmir province. The Resistance Front claimed responsibility for the attack, which left 28 people dead. However, New Delhi held Islamabad responsible, citing the group’s links to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group.
In an initial response, India expelled Pakistani diplomats, closed border crossings, and even halted a vital water-sharing agreement. The last move, never before taken even during full-on wars. From its side, Pakistan closed its airspace to Indian flights and suspended bilateral trade.
The latest escalation saw the Indian military launching “Operation Sindoor” in the early hours of May 7 in both Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Sindoor is a Hindi word for the bright red vermillion powder worn by married Hindu women on their forehead and hair. The operation codename was apparently chosen to refer to the women who saw their husbands killed in front of them in Pahalgam.
Nine sites, not including any Pakistani civilian, economic or military facilities, were targeted, two Indian military spokespersons told a briefing in New Delhi, adding that the 25-minute operation targeted “terrorist infrastructure” belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba and another military group known as Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The spokesman noted that the Indian military used niche technology weapons and carefully chose warheads to avoid collateral damage to civilians and civilian infrastructure, but did not elaborate on the specifics or methods used in the strikes.
“Intelligence and monitoring of Pakistan-based terror modules showed that further attacks against India were impending, therefore it was necessary to take pre-emptive and precautionary strikes,” Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, the top official in its external affairs ministry, told the briefing.
French-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and AASM Hammer glide bombs were reportedly the weapons employed by the Indian military.
The strikes hit six locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province, said Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif.
“Until now 26 innocent civilians have been martyred in attacks,” said another Pakistani military spokesman, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.
The Pakistani military said that it had shot down five Indian fighter jets, including three French-made Rafales and two Russian-made Su-30MKI and MiG-29, inside India, in addition to an Israeli-made IAI Heron combat drone, adding: “They attacked Pakistan.”
There was no immediate comment from India about Pakistan’s claim, although Reuters said that at least three aircraft crashed in separate areas of the Himalayan region in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir. Videos posted to social networks later seemed to confirm that at least one Rafale was downed.
Chinese-made JF-17 Block III and J-10C fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force were reportedly responsible for the Indian aerial losses. Chinese PL-15 long-range air-to-air missiles. which were showcased by Pakistan very recently, were allegedly used.
Indian media claimed that a Pakistani JF-17 was shot down while trying to intrude into Indian airspace. There was no comment from the Pakistani military.
In addition, the Pakistani military announced that it had shelled a brigade headquarters and several other sites of the Indian military.
The Indian police and medics said 11 civilians were killed and 49 wounded by Pakistani shelling in Poonch district, which lies close to the highly militarized Line of Control, the de facto border that divides disputed Kashmir between the two countries.
The United States, Russia and China all called on India and Pakistan to engage in diplomacy and exercise restraint in separate statements.
Still, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that his country “has every right” to respond, calling India’s operation an “act of war.” The premier’s office announced later that the Pakistani military had been authorized to undertake corresponding actions.
While neither country appears to be interested in an all-out war, a response by Pakistan could further expand the ongoing confrontation.
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pakistan men started run from pakistan to turkey and azerbaijan with planes, some pakistan men do not want to fight.
pakistan must close all its borders or in the future pakistan will have men power problem same as ukraina.
a few men always run away from any war. nobody, i repeat, nobody is dumb as ukraine. that is a dumb on a whole new level. its genetic defective type of action
hopefully these two stinking shitehole banana republics will nuke each other to extinction. that will save the world a lot of trouble.
that would mean nuclear winter and the end of the whole world as we know it . check online india-paki nuclear war scenarios and consequences.
right party in romania will be government soon, like you all 3rd,4rd,5rd world anti human will leave from romania by force fucking scum nations
ghassan alian will invade damascus and free the kurds from turkish slavery. unlike putler, he will send the jihadist group to idlib on foot and not by bus. he will also confiscate all their cash and stolen gold, and anything else that pleases him and his idf. this will make syria as big as idlib and become a city-state.
before ghassan allien er-dog-an will invade rojova kurds. er-dog-an just barked so far as a dog but soon turkish army will enter to the kurdistan land in syria by erdogans order.
e o que tem a ver esses inocentes animais com a lixarada humana? vc e toda a sua imunda e amaldiçoada família de demônios jamais chegarão aos pés de um animal inocente….verme!
pakistan tanks are getting ready to passing across much of their de facto border in the himalayan region of kashmir.
pakistan sending a lot of tanks there at the moment tanks headed to the border.
pakistan will bomb all dams firstly which dams are on chenab river and jamal river. so indian water blockage via dams will be finished soon by pakistan jetfighter missiles, pakistan ordered pilots distroying dams with missiles.
i read a report the india struck 9 terrorist camps . if there are terrorist camps in pakistan , as india claims , who is funding / suppling these camps ?
is india the “i” in brics ?
nah, the i in india means idiots, the i in bric means iran.
who funds fake muslim groups? i think you know the answer to that. the same people behind attacks that perpetuate the eternal jewish victimhood scam.
at least 2 children have been killed along with other innocent civilians. the idea that india stuck terrorist camps is nonsensical. india destroying mosques in pakistan is fine but if they retaliate and destroy hindu temples in india, that’s a holy war. the mental gymnastics of indian people is on par with israelis
this war was engineered by ussa. attacking indian tourists for fun? it bears all hallmarks of cia funded fake muslim groups.
now we are talking. hats down to this.
india passed the border and entered 100 km inside pakistan bombed the terrorists and get back succesufuly.
stop having lots of vindaloo.lots hot air
reading the comment of someone like you a cow, is even a waste of time.”
what about the 5 indian fighter jets obviously hardly kissing paki ground?
in general ok for me if bollywood kicking some islamist arses, but a larger escalation should be avoided.
rational leaders would’ve called for foreign powers to investigate, find concrete evidence linking pakistan to the terror attack in kashmir and then retaliate with un sanctions and arms embargo. that would cripple pakistan’s efforts in kashmir if they were behind the attack. instead, india chose to block off water supply from indian territories to pakistan and attacked civilian areas in pakistan under the pretext of terrorism.
this attack was a cooked up false flag to trigger conflicts for war pigs that sell weapons
these indian airforce pilots are a bunch of idiots. don’t they even know how to evade a missile? bloody embarassing.
both are a plague of the overpopulattion
2nd wave will start soon this attact is not over yet.
india will destroy pakistan.
nah, pakistan are a force to be reckoned with.