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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: enslaved1 on May 07, 2025, 09:29:18 AM
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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/multiple-loud-explosions-heard-pakistani-kashmir-reuters-witness-2025-05-06/ (https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/multiple-loud-explosions-heard-pakistani-kashmir-reuters-witness-2025-05-06/)
India strikes Pakistan over tourist killings, Pakistan says it will retaliate
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan/NEW DELHI, May 7 (Reuters) - India hit Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir with missiles on Wednesday and Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian aircraft and vowed to retaliate, in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
India said it struck nine "terrorist infrastructure" sites, some of them linked to an attack by Islamist militants on Hindu tourists that killed 26 people in Indian Kashmir last month.
Pakistan said at least 26 people had been killed on Wednesday and that India "had ignited an inferno in the region". Islamabad pledged to respond "at a time, place and manner of its choosing to avenge the loss of innocent Pakistani lives and blatant violation of its sovereignty".
A government security committee said Islamabad emphatically rejected Indian allegations of the presence of terrorist camps on its territory.
The Indian strikes included targets in Punjab, its first attacks on Pakistan's most populous province since the last full-scale war between the old enemies more than half a century ago, triggering fears of further hostilities in one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints.
Oh, goody, another war! This time between two nuclear armed countries! It's so hard not to tempt "worse"....
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The context:
26 killed, over a dozen injured after terrorists attack tourists in J&K's Pahalgam
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Apr/22/28-killed-over-a-dozen-injured-after-terrorists-attack-tourists-in-jks-pahalgam (https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Apr/22/28-killed-over-a-dozen-injured-after-terrorists-attack-tourists-in-jks-pahalgam)
Terrorists opened fire on a popular meadow near Pahalgam in Kashmir on Tuesday afternoon, killing 26 people, mostly tourists, and injuring over a dozen, in the deadliest attack in the region since the 2019 Pulwama strike.
The incident happened at around 2:30 pm in Baisaran, about six kilometres from the resort town of Pahalgam, is an expansive meadow ringed by dense pine forests and mountains and a favourite with visitors from across the country and the world.
Armed terrorists came into the grassland, dubbed 'mini Switzerland', and started firing at tourists milling around eateries, taking pony rides or just picnicking, officials and eyewitnesses said.
As news of the terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam broke, The Resistance Front (TRF)—a shadow outfit linked to the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)—claimed responsibility for the assault.