Posted on 09/30/2016 12:50:27 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Elite troops have launched “surgical strikes” on Pakistan-based terrorists in the contested territory of Kashmir, India said on Thursday, in a major escalation of a deepening crisis between the nuclear-armed rivals.
The Indian army said troops conducted multiple nighttime raids across the line of control (LOC), the ceasefire line agreed in 1972 that divides the Himalayan region, to attack militants preparing to cross into Indian-controlled territory.
Pakistan said two of its soldiers had been killed in exchanges of fire, but denied India had made any targeted strikes. Pakistan later captured an Indian soldier on its side of the border, military officials from both countries said. An Indian army spokesman said the soldier had inadvertently crossed the frontier and had nothing to do with the earlier raids.
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Pakistan gives safe haven for islamic terrorists but gets upset when they are attacked.
Both of them are pretty much kleptocracies, with a gloss of democracy.
Of the two, India is a bit better than Pakistan.
They are both very corrupt.
and they have nukes. Great!!
I read Iran lobbed into Afghanistan.
Do the Afghans have any allies?
We are probably the closest thing to an ally.
Put Afghans do not think of themselves as Afghans much.
They are a collection of tribes that fight each other when not fighting outsiders.
Russia and the US?
Oh, never mind...
Trouble between Buddhists and Muslims.
Trouble between Christians and Muslims.
Trouble between Jews and Muslims.
Trouble between Atheists and Muslims.
Trouble between Hindus and Muslims.
Any liberal could look at this and see the problem: The rest of the world has to change to accommodate Muslims.
“Pakistan said two of its soldiers had been killed in exchanges of fire, but denied India had made any targeted strikes.”
Pakistan will deny anything is happening until something, anything goes their way.
Go India. The pakis are moozlum freaks and terrorists.
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