The risk of a total war between India and Pakistan Rose Week, despite the diplomatic attempts to disable the fight after a deadly terrorist attack two weeks ago in Kashmir, a region on which the two nations have fought since 1947.
The civilians were killed on Wednesday when India arrived deeper to Pakistan than before. Mortal shots and bombing were exchanged along the border in dispute on Thors Day. As he continued on Friday, the Pakistani drones touched the Indian soil, said the Indian army.
This is what you should know about long -standing tensions between India and Pakistan, the Kashmir attack, this week’s clashes and attempts to resolve the conflict.
What is the latest in the fight?
The Indian army said Friday that Pakistan had launched attacks with drones and other weapons along his western border and that he had frustrated those attacks. Pakistan rejected those statements.
India responded by hitting Pakistan’s air defense systems and radars. Pakistan accused India of what he called illegal aggression and said that the forces had demolished more than two boxes of Indian drones that had entered Pakistan’s airspace.
In the quick development situation, the statements of both sides could not be verified independently. The missiles and shots have flown on the shared border of the countries from Thorsday, killing civilians on both sides.
On Wednesday, the Indian government said their forces had hit sites in the Pakistani territory. Pakistani military officers said they had demolished Indian airplanes. They added that the Jets did not enter Pakistan’s airspace while making their attacks against Pakistan.
More than 20 people were killed after six sites were beaten on the side controlled by Pakistan of Kashmir and in the Punjab province of Pakistan, said the country’s military officers. At least 10 people have died on the legs in the bombing of the Pakistani side since India carried out their attacks, residents of the part -controlled part of the Kashmir were said.
What is being done to stop the fight?
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with leaders from both countries on Thors Day and emphasized the need for “unused decalation,” according to the accounts of the State Department of the calls.
There was a wave of diplomatic meetings in New Delhi and Islamabad on Thursday. The main diplomats of Iran and Saudi Arabia, crucial regional players who have close links with the two countries at war, were in New Delhi for meetings.
The diplomatic impulse focused on the hope that the heaviest military commitment could contain in the actions early. Both parties could claim the plausible victory, since India came deeper to Pakistan than at any time in recent decades, and Pakistan knocked several Indian planes.
Diplomats and analysts expressed some hope that the events of the day could survey the two parties. The question now is whether Pakistan will decide that he must answer the attacks of India in Punjab, the Pakistani heart, with his own attack on the Indian soil.
What happened in the Kashmir attack?
On April 22, the militants fired and killed 26 people in the Baisaran Valley in Kashmir. Another 17 were judicious.
Except for a local puppy man, a government account of the dead showed that they were all Hindu tourists. The Kured and survivors’ accounts suggested that many were attacked after they were asked about their religion. The attack, which occurred near Pahalgam, a town in the southern part of Kashmir adhered to India, was one of the sausages of Indian civilians in decades.
A group that called himself the resistance front arose on social networks to assume responsibility. Indian officials say that the group is a Lashkar-E-Taiba proxy, a Pakistan-based terrorist organization.
In Kashmir, the Indian security forces have begun radical repression, arresting thousands of people.
What is the Sindoor operation?
India has appointed its Sndoor military action operation.
Sindoor, or in the bermellones dust, is a traditional marker of civil status or Hindu women. Married women use it in the separation of their hair or on the forehead, and clean it if widowed. Duration The terrorist attack of April 22, many women lost their husbands, who were attacked because they were Hindu.
The choice of the Indian government of the name Operation Sndoor pointed out its intention to avenge widowed women.
The “Sindoor Operation” also points to the Hindu right -wing groups, many of which favor the most traditionally defined gender roles, that the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is listening to his demands for revenge.
But some feminists have criticized the use of the word Sindor.
Hindu nationalism is predominantly driven by a male vision of the world, said V. Geetha, a feminist historian who writes about gender, caste and class. “Women appear in him as objects to be protected or the mother’s figures that incite her men to Proheroism,” Geetha said.
What are the origins of the dispute?
The roots of the Kashmir conflict date back to the 1947 partition of British India, which led to the creation of a predominantly Hindu India and a predominantly Muslim Pakistan.
In October of that year, the Hindu monarch of the Muslim majority, the princesco of Kashmiro accessed India, but Pakistan claimed the territory and tried to take it by military force. An agreement not negotiated in 1949 established a line of high fire, dividing to Kashmir.
After the wars in 1965 and 1971, the high line of fire became the control line, and India had about two thirds of Kashmir and Pakistan the rest. But the dispute remains unsolved.
Sirs A timeline of the decades of tensions Between India and Pakistan on Kashmir.
Has Pakistan supported the militancy in Kashmir?
An insurgency in the part administered by the India of Kashmira begged in the 1980s, mainly driven by local complaints, with Pakistan any Vally group, experts say.
Among the insurgents centered in Kashmir that arose, some supported the independence of the region, while others wanted the Indian back of Kashmir to be tasks by Pakistan.
In the 1990s, Pakistan tried training and other support for several militant groups operating in Kashmir and inside Pakistan. This participation was then recognized by several senior Pakistani officials, including former military ruler Pervez Mushraf. The increase in insurgency in the 1990s forced an exodus of the minority Hindu of Kashmir, a large number of them that went to New Delhi and other cities after facing specific attacks.
The insurgency suggested relieving around 2002, while Pakistan prohibited Lashkar-E-Taiba and Jaish-E-Muhammad, another important militant group, although Lashkar-E-Taiba continued to operate under alias. The fire was declared a stop and a peace began with India, a change that some were linked to the pressure from the United States after their speech after September 11 in Afghanistan.
The peace process collapsed after the attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008, which killed 166 people and were attributed to Lashkar-E-Taiba.
What is the Kashmir state now?
Since the war broke out for the last time in 1999, Cashmira has continued to be one of the most militarized places in the world. India and Pakistan have reached the edge of the war several times, even in 2019, when a suicide bombing in Kashmiro killed at least 40 Indian soldiers.
In 2019, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked a part of the Indian Constitution that had given semi -autonomy to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The measure, to completely integrate Jammu and Kashmir, as the part of the India region is known, was part of his Hindu nationalist agenda.
Pakistan condemned India’s movements. But violent disturbances have exploded by Cashmiro controlled by Pakistan as well. The protests there have reflected a general feeling or dissatisfaction with the Pakistani government.
The direct rule of India cushions the outbreaks of violence in the assholy that controlled. The vote also resumed last year. But the discontent with the party of Mr. Modi, particularly because of the heavy, remains the life of the Kashmir.
John Yoon Contributed reports.
