India and Pakistan in the worst conflict in 20 years, 43 dead
India and Pakistan exchanged a fire on Wednesday after Indian attacks during the night, killed 31 people on Pakistani and 12 on the Indian side, which is the worst military conflict between two nuclear forces in the last 20 years.
Ever since armed people on April 22 in Pahalgama, in the Indian Kashmir killed 26 tourists, a conflict between two South Asian countries, rivals from their division in 1947.
Tension escalation has turned into a military conflict overnight, which encouraged bids to mediate Beijing and London, while the EU, UN, Moscow, Washington and Paris called for restraint.
« I want to stop. And I hope I can stop now, » US President Donald Trump said in Washington.
The two armies exchanged an artillery fire along the controversial border in Kashmir after Indian attacks on Pakistani soil as retaliation to attack in Pahalgam.
Pakistan threatened to retaliate on Wednesday.
The Indian Minister of Defense of Rajnath Singh reiterated that these attacks were focused only on the carefully identified « terrorist camps » to « avoid the population or civilian areas ».
India argued that it destroyed nine locations believed to have housed members of the Islamist group of Laskar-E-Taiba (flight), which is to blame for the attack in the Indian Kashmir, for which no one has taken responsibility.
New Delhi accuses Pakistan of supporting FLY, which is Slamabad sharply denies.
