Conflict intensification in Pakistani India: direct updates

Here is what to know about the long tensions between India and Pakistan, the attack in Kashmir, the confrontations this week and attempts to resolve the conflict.

What is the latest in fighting?

The Indian army said on Friday that Pakistan launched attacks using drones and other weapons along its western borders and that it had thwarted these attacks. Pakistan rejected these claims.

India responded by hitting air defense systems in Pakistan and radars. Pakistan accused India of what he called the illegal aggression and said that its forces dropped more than twenty Indian drones that entered the Pakistani airspace.

In the rapid developing position, the claims of both sides cannot be verified independently. The rockets flew and fire on the common border of the countries since Thursday, killing civilians on both sides.

On Wednesday, the Indian government said that its forces struck sites in Pakistani territory. Pakistani military officials said they had shot down Indian planes. They added that the aircraft did not enter the airspace in Pakistan during their attacks on Pakistan.

Military officials in the country said that more than 20 people were killed after six sites were wounded on the side of Pakistan from Kashmir and in the Benjab County Pakistan. The residents of the India -controlled part of Kashmir said that at least 10 people were killed in the bombing from the Pakistani side since it carried out its strikes.

What is being done to stop the fighting?

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio spoke with leaders from both countries on Thursday and stressed the need to “cancel the immediate escalation”, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accounts.

There was a wave of diplomatic meetings in New Delhi and Islamabad on Thursday. The major diplomats from Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the regional and conscience players who have close ties with both warring countries were in New Delhi to attend the meetings.

The diplomatic batch on the hope that the heaviest military participation will contain the measures early on Wednesday. The two sides can demand a reasonable victory, as India erupted in Pakistan from what it was at any time in recent decades, and Pakistan has fallen many Indian aircraft.

Diplomats and analysts have expressed some hope that today’s events may be presented to both sides as a speech. The question now is whether Pakistan has decided that it must answer India’s strikes in Punjab, Pakistani heart, with its own attack on Indian soil.

What happened in the Kashmir attack?

On April 22, They shot the militants 26 people in the Bizarran Valley in Kashmir. 17 others were injured.

With the exception of a man of a local Kashmiri, the Motami government showed that all of them are Hindu tourists. Accounts of the injured and the survivors indicated that many of them were targeted after their question about their religion. The attack, which took place near Paalgam, a town in the southern part of Kashmir, the Indian Mouse of Kashmir, was one of the worst for Indian civilians for decades.

A group called itself appeared on the front of the resistance on social media to take responsibility. Indian officials say that the group is an agent of Lashkar-E-TAIBA, a terrorist organization based in Pakistan.

In Kashmir, the Indian security forces began a comprehensive ban, The arrest of thousands of people.

What is the Sendor process?

India has named its military action Sindoor Operation.

Sendoor, or Vermilion Powder, is a traditional mark of the marital status of Hindu women. Married women are wearing either in the separation of their hair or their forehead, and they wipe it if they become a widow. During the terrorist attack on April 22, many women lost their husbands, who were targeting because they were Hindu.

The Indian government’s choice of the Sindoor Operation Operation Operation Prosecution indicated its intention to take revenge on widows.

The “Sindoor Operation” also refers to right-wing Hindu groups-which are more traditionally preferred to gender roles-that the Hindu National government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi listens to their demands for revenge.

But some feminists criticized the use of the word Sindoor.

V. Getha, the female historian who writes about sex, class and class, said that Hindu nationalism is often driven by a male vision of the world. “Women appear in this as protected things or as hopes wandering in their men to prove their heroism,” said Ms. Jetha.

What are the origins of the conflict?

The roots of the conflict Kashmir go back to the British India Section in 1947, mostly created India and the mostly Muslim Muslims.

In October of that year, the king of Al -Kashmir Al -Amiri in the Emiri State of Kashmir moved to India, but Pakistan has submitted a claim to the region and sought to take it by military force. A non -average agreement in 1949 established a ceasefire line, by dividing Kashmir.

After the two wars in 1965 and 1971, the ceasefire line became a line of control, as India owns about two thirds of cashmere and Pakistan is the rest. But the conflict is still unleashed.

here Testing schedule for tensions Between India and Pakistan on Kashmir.

Have you supported Pakistan militancy in Kashmir?

Experts say that the rebellion in the Indian part of Kashmir began in the eighties, driven in the first place through local grievances, with Pakistan eventually supporting some groups.

Among the rebel groups focused on Kashmir, some of which supported the independence of the region, while others wanted to seize the Indian side of Kashmir by Pakistan.

In the 1990s, Pakistan provided training and other support for many armed groups working in Kashmir and inside Pakistan. This participation was later recognized by many senior Pakistani officials, including Former military ruler, Bruise Musharraf. The rise in the rebellion in the 1990s was forced to leave the Hindu Kashmir minority, and a large number of them leave to New Delhi and other cities after facing the targeted attacks.

The rebellion began to mitigate around 2002, as Pakistan banned Askar-Tayba and Army-Muhammad, another group of militant, although Lashkar-E-TAIBA continued to work under the borrowed name. The ceasefire was announced and a peace process began with India, a transformation that some observers are linked to pressure by the United States after its intervention after 9/10 in Afghanistan.

The peace process collapsed after attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008, which killed 166 people and attributed it to Lashkar-E-TAIBA.

What is Kashmir now?

Since the war erupted in 1999, Kashmir has been one of the most military places in the world. India and Pakistan have reached the edge of the war several times, including In 2019when Suicide bombing In Kashmir, at least 40 Indian soldiers were killed.

In 2019, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Eliminate Part of the Indian constitution that gave half of the nutrition in Jammu and Kashmir state. This step was to integrate Jamo and Kashmir, as part of India, part of his Hindu national agenda.

Pakistan condemned India’s movements. But violent disorders erupted in a part of Kashmir, as well as Pakistan. The protests are reflected there is a general feeling Lack of satisfaction with Pakistani rule.

The direct rule by India Wet Violence in part of the Kashmir that controls it. The vote also resumed last year. But discontent with the party of Mr. Modi, especially for how he greatly cleared the lives of the Kashmiris.

John Yun The reports contributed.