US EditionPakistan calls India strike ‘act of war,’ says it downed Indian jets
- On May 7, India initiated Operation Sindoor, carrying out airstrikes on multiple targets across Pakistan and the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir in response to a deadly militant attack that occurred in Kashmir the previous month.
- The strikes followed a militant attack in April that killed 26 tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, which India blames on Pakistan-based groups, although Islamabad denies involvement and calls the strikes an act of war.
- Pakistan reported shooting down five Indian jets, described civilian casualties including children from Indian strikes, and responded with cross-border shelling along the Line of Control dividing Kashmir.
- United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concern, urging restraint and warning that the world "cannot afford a military confrontation" between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
- The escalating conflict risks a dangerous spiral of retaliation potentially involving nuclear weapons, while international calls for de-escalation continue amid heightened tensions and disrupted civilian life.
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Pakistan calls Indian strikes an 'act of war' and vows to respond
Pakistan is vowing to avenge Indian missile strikes that Pakistan says killed more than 30 people. India says it targeted terrorist infrastructure in retaliation for a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir. Cross-border fire between the countries continues and there are concerns of an escalation. Nick Schifrin reports.
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India and Pakistan's perilous military tit-for-tat really could mean nuclear war
AS if the world isn’t racked by enough conflict, war between two nuclear-armed states has just broken out. India’s air strikes on Pakistan as retaliation for the terrorist attack on its citizens in the disputed region of Kashmir on April 22 raises the spectre of nuclear war. AFPThe Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi[/caption] AFPPakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif[/caption] Pakistan has vowed revenge for the bombardment, further ratcheti…
All out war could ensue if 'revenge-obsessed' Trump can't 'rise to the occasion': expert
The escalating conflict between India and Pakistan — one that has the real possibility of becoming nuclear — could turn out to be the first true test of the Trump administration's foreign policy mettle, according to a new piece in The Atlantic. On Wednesday, Pakistan claimed to have downed several Indian fighter jets in response to India's attack on Punjab province and Pakistan-administered Kashmir earlier this week. Pakistan claimed 21 people w…
Pakistan calls Indian airstrikes ‘act of war’
Pakistan has said it will retaliate after Indian airstrikes killed 31 people last night and injured 46. The Indian military said it hit nine sites in Pakistan and in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir which it said were ‘terrorist camps’ – Pakistan disputes that claim. Soldiers exchanged artillery and gunfire along the frontier near Poonch and more than 15 people were killed on the Indian side of the line of control.
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