Indian-Pakistan War and the Indian-Israeli War on the Warped Front: A Critical Look at India’s Latest Violations
The conflict between India and Pakistan has been going on for decades. An expert on the matter says the world doesn’t seem to take it seriously.
This followed India’s missile attacks across Pakistan in the early hours Wednesday, in what has been the latest ratcheting of tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries that began with gunmen killing Indian tourists in late April.
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office this week that the strikes were “a shame” and that he hoped the fighting would end “quickly.” He added that the two had fought for decades and “centuries.” Pakistan was founded in 1947.
According to Praveen Donthy, who is a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, intervention is needed in the conflict if it is to sound like a benign war that’s been going on.
He said that the international community’s view that India and Pakistan are nuclear powers creates a huge risk because there is no way to know what will happen.
Steve Inskeep: NPR’s Diaa Hadid reports that India struck earlier in the week. It was apparent that it would be it. National security advisers talking, trying to work it out. There are more strikes today. What do you think about that?
Inskeep said it was inskeep India says it’s striking air defenses in Pakistan. To do this, let’s assume that’s true. When you strike air defenses, it is often to clear the way for hitting something else, to clear out the airspace. Is there an expectation that India could strike yet again?
Donthi: It’s an ongoing operation according to them. They say they hit nine sites, which is “terror infrastructure.” So more strikes could be on the way. Pakistan is under enormous pressure due to the fact that there have been civilian deaths, unlike the last time.
The comments might embolden both sides according to Praveen Donthi, an India analyst for the International Crisis Group. He said that India and Pakistan don’t know when to stop the hostilities as they’re reaching a new threshold every day.
Donthi: That’s right. There have been tit-for-tat diplomatic moves followed by military strikes. We don’t know what’s going to happen next whenever there’s a demand for a more powerful strike. This time, it looks very serious. But the world seems to be not taking it seriously. The president talked about how the conflict had been going on for so long. In fact, he said “centuries,” which might make it sound like it’s a benign war that’s been going on and they’re bound to stop at one point. That carries a big risk because both of them are nuclear powers and all they do is make a mistake. The world thinks that both powers aren’t completely in control of the dynamics.
Donth very much. Yeah, exactly. President Trump claimed to be close to both the powers, which we know is true, though India and the U.S. have been growing closer in the past 10 years. But there are historic ties with Pakistan as well. The U.S. is capable of bringing both parties to the table.
Diaa Hadid reported in Mumbai, India. Bilal Kuchay contributed reporting from Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, Betsy Joles contributed from Lahore, Pakistan, and Omkar Khandekar from Mumbai.
Rohingya refugees in India – the “refugee crisis” in Kashmir, a human rights activist tells the Indian media
He said the United States had a good chance of ending the hostilities because of its relationship with Pakistan and its proximity to India.
The Secretary of State expressed support for direct dialogue between India and Pakistan during his call with Pakistan’s prime minister.
Nazir’s wife was spared because she was pregnant. Nazir said that he and a group of others were able to flee and sleep in a park. The government seems to have taken advantage of the situation to keep the men in custody, according to a lawyer who is representing them. Delhi police did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Even as hostilities gripped the public’s attention, human rights activists said Indian authorities had rounded up and detained more than 30 Rohingya refugees from their homes in the Indian capital, including the elderly parents of David Nazir.
In a town in Indian-held Kashmir, Narendar Singh said his neighbors fled after the shelling from Pakistan. Resident Sarfaraz Ahmad Mir said Pakistani shelling overnight killed his cousins, a twin boy and girl aged 11-years-old.
On Thursday, Indian residents piled by the roadside to watch security forces gathered around one fallen projectile in a field in the village of Makhan Windi, some 25 miles from the Pakistani border. The mood was more curious than fearful.
A bang from the village of Jammu, Achabal and Anantnag in India’s military seized Kashmir after a terrorist attack
“We can try to encourage these folks to deescalate a little bit, but we aren’t going to get involved in the middle of a war that’s not ours to control and has nothing to do with America’s ability to control it.”
By Thursday evening, blasts could be heard above the towns in Jammu, Achabal and Anantnag in Indian-administered Kashmir. An Indian army spokesperson, Suneel Bartwal, told NPR that districts along the line that separates India and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir “have been put on high alert. There is a power cut.
India’s information ministry said its armed forces “targeted Air Defence Radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan,” and added “it has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralised.”
The army spokesman said that the military had launched an attack near Lahore and that a few blasts were related to it. He said four army personnel were injured in that incident.
Abbas was washing a car in an upscale suburb when he heard a bang. He said “a few people were frightened,” but otherwise, people carried on. People who are hiding in their houses are not cowardice. Whatever happens, will happen to all of us.”
An army shot down in Pakistan: A serious provocation of the army and the security situation in a highly charged environment, as Pakistan’s general army observes
Pakistan’s army said it shot down 25 military drones that fanned over population centers — including the city that houses Pakistan’s general army headquarters.
“This is a serious, serious provocation,” Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary said of the Indian drones in an English-language statement. It seems that India has lost the plot. The path of rationality is not being followed in a highly charged environment.
Amid the tensions, the U.S. Consulate General in Lahore, Pakistan, directed its staff to shelter in place. There are airports near the border with India and Pakistan. School was out in border areas of both Pakistan and India.
Parents on one Pakistani WhatsApp group exchanged emergency checklists that included baby milk powder and coloring books to keep kids busy. “Stay calm, stay prepared. The list concluded, “May we all remain safe.”
Vive President Vance says India-Pakistan Fighting is ‘none of our business’: A Fox News interview with Rubio
He spoke on Fox News about a question about whether the Trump administration was worried about nuclear conflict. We want this thing to de-escalate, but we can’t control these countries.
Vance said the administration was pursuing de-escalation through diplomatic channels and said he did not think nuclear war was a likely scenario. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday he spoke to the Indian foreign minister and the Pakistani prime minister.
Arifa Noor is a columnist for the liberal newspaper Dawn, and she says that Vance’s comments signaled more hands-off foreign policy. During previous escalations in 2019 and 1999, Washington worked intently to dial down tensions.
She said that Pakistan often sought international help because it believed itself to be the weakest party in the dispute over the disputed region of Kashmir. Both countries claim possession of the Himalayan territory in its entirety.
At least two projectiles landed on Friday in the city of Okara. People filmed one careering to the ground, spinning across a field while emitting smoke as young men dashed out of the way. Both residents anonymity because they did not want to anger the authorities in Pakistan, who have not commented on the incident.
“There were dozens of fireballs in the sky,” said Gowher Ahmad, 43, of Jammu city, of the overnight barrage. Friday was quiet, but Ahmad said he feared the night.
Source: Vice President Vance says India-Pakistan fighting is ‘none of our business’
Comments on a Kashmiri preacher: The Indian government’s crackdown on violent protests against the villagers in a border village
Most of the residents of the village, which is a border village, had left. She explained that the rest of them were in the basement of a three-story building. Many people from Khari couldn’t flee because they had to care for their animals, like Karamat’s elderly parents.
As violence continues, India appears to be cracking down more intently on critics. The prominent Kashmiri preacher said that he was not allowed to go to the Friday prayers in Indian-held Kashmir. He urged the countries not to tread on this dangerous path, and shared a video of his previous sermon.
The social media network X said that it had been given “executive orders” by the Indian government to block more than 8,000 accounts, including news organizations. A prominent journalist, Anuradha Bhasin, as well as an independent news site in New Delhi, were blocked. Indian authorities did not respond to requests for comment.