Posted on 05/08/2025 11:30:00 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
India fired attack drones into Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two civilians, the Pakistani military said.
India, meanwhile, accused its neighbor of attempting its own attack, as tensions soared between the nuclear-armed rivals.
India acknowledged that it targeted Pakistan's air defense system, and Islamabad said it shot down several of the drones. India said it "neutralized" Pakistan's attempts to hit military targets. It was not possible to verify all of the claims.
The exchanges came a day after Indian missiles struck several locations in Pakistan, killing 31 civilians, according to Pakistani officials. New Delhi said it was retaliating after gunmen killed more than two dozen people, mostly Hindu tourists, in India-controlled Kashmir last month. India accused Pakistan of being behind the assault. Islamabad denies that.
Both sides have also traded heavy fire across their frontier in disputed Kashmir, and Pakistan claimed it killed scores of Indian soldiers. There was no confirmation from India.
Late Thursday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, residents of the city of Jammu reported hearing explosions and sirens.
Shesh Paul Vaid, the region's former director-general of police, said there was a complete blackout in Jammu following loud blasts. Vaid told The Associated Press that the Jammu Airport likely was under attack and that some of the 50 loud explosions he heard likely were because "our defense system is at work."
Indian officials did not immediately comment. Jammu is close to the Line of Control, the de factor border that divides the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to avenge the deaths in India's missile strikes, raising fears that the two countries could be headed toward another all-out conflict. Leaders from both nations face mounting public pressure to show strength and seek revenge...
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I think India has been remarkably restrained considering this attack murdered 26 innocent people.
IMHO, India has to keep enough muscle nearby for if China comes in from the other direction. Remember the times Chinese soldiers brazenly walked across the border into India?
India definitely has to watch and defend in all directions!
Gordon Chang was speculating that China paid the terrorists to start this war, as India is the one benefiting from the US trade war. Could be true. China does win in an India Pokkeystahn war.
Is this today or a report from Monday or Tuesday?
Anywhere you have Muslims and they are in large numbers but you have a presence of another religion, you have conflict.
Nigeria
Sudan
Israel
India / Pakistan
Lebanon
Egypt
And the list goes on and on.
Muslims and Jews: nope
Muslims and Christians: nope
Muslims and Zoroastrians: nope
Muslims and atheists: nope
Muslims and Hindu: nope
Muslims in more conservative culture: nope
Muslims in more liberal culture: nope
Muslims in places where people are black or brown racially: nope
Muslims in places where people are white or Asiatic: nope
In fact, this is true in the past as well, i.e. historically since nearly the inception of Islam.
It is echoed by many of their most prominent clerics that openly talk about submitting other people or destroying them.
It is explicitly stated in their doctrine, in the Koran itself on how to deal with non-believers.
Finally, it is reflected in most opinion polls (outside the West) where Muslims are asked what openly state what they think.
After a while, an intelligent person, should see the constant (Islam / Muslims) and notice there is a trend.
But not in the West, not in the Western MSM, and not in the Western arts.
Would have been nice if W. Bush had take away Pakistan’s nukes when we occupied them after 9/11.
“Would have been nice if W. Bush had take away Pakistan’s nukes when we occupied them after 9/11.”
We occupied Pakistan?
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