India – Pakistan: Global concern about the intensity of the two nuclear forces in Kashmir
At least eight people, including a child, were killed and 35 injured after attacks launched by India Nine, as he claimed, « terrorist infrastructure » inside Pakistan, in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear equipped neighbors.
Three more civilians died in the midst of continuing exchanges of fire, especially artillery, along the so -called DE Facto border and Pakistani borders – in Kashmir, as the Indian authorities announced.
Pakistan described the Indian blows as a « act of war » and claimed to have dropped five aircraft of the Indian Air Force. « Pakistan gives the appropriate response to India, » the Pakistani government said in a statement.
The chart shows the locations hit by Indian blows:
Source: CNN
‘Zero tolerance’
India had accused Pakistan of joining an attack on Hindu tourists in Indian cashmere last month, which killed 26 people. « We keep the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable, » the Indian Defense Ministry said.
« The Indian Armed Forces launched the » Sindoor operation « , hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and the Pakistan of Jamos and Kashmir occupied, from which terrorist attacks on India were designed and implemented, » they said in the announcement, and added: No Pakistani military establishment was a target. «
« People have to show zero tolerance for terrorism, » Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in his early public comments about New Delhi’s attacks on Pakistan and the Kashmir Pakistani administration.
The world must show zero tolerance for Terrorism. #OPERATHINDOOR pic.twitter.com/dmcclfbmjn
– Dr. S. Jaishankar (@drsjaishankar) May 7, 2025
« We will answer, » Pakistan says in India – the National Security Committee is convened
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif promised retaliation. « Pakistan has every right to respond vigorously to this act of war imposed by India and is already giving a dynamic answer, » he said. « The Pakistani nation and the Pakistani Armed Forces are well aware of how to deal with the enemy, » he said. « We will never let the enemy achieve his miserable goals. » He was about to hold a meeting of the National Security Committee later this morning (at 8 hours of Greece).
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told the Guardian: « We are in the process of retaliation. You will see Pakistan’s response before the morning, « he said.
The missile attacks were reported around 1am. local time. Pictures that were shared on social media showed the bloody body of a dead child and a seriously injured adult lying to stretchers. In a video widely shared on X, it appears a huge explosion to illuminate the night sky, while smoke rises in the air.
Happy Diwali, Pakistan
Indian army jai hind #OPERATHINDOOR pic.twitter.com/gryxrv26Wz
– Vishal (@vishalmalvi_) May 6, 2025
Immediately after the blows, India accused Pakistan of violating a ceasefire agreement with artillery fire throughout the heavy militarized « line of control », which marks the de facto border in Kashmir.
« We hear constant strong clicks and some shells have landed near civilian areas, » Haji Sanaullah, who lives in the Kupwara area of the Indian Kashmir Administration, told the Guardian. A spokesman for the Pakistani Army confirmed to Reuters that there were fire exchanges in many locations on the control line.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said Indian forces had launched blows while remaining in Indian airspace. He said the attack was a major threat to commercial air traffic.
« This reckless escalation has brought the two nuclear -equipped states closer to a large conflict, » the statement said. Several large airlines said they had suspended flights to Pakistan and over Northern India land by noon local time on Wednesday.
Steep escalation
India and Pakistan for about two weeks exchanging serious categories and night fires along the control line, after the long -standing attack on tourists on April 22 in the Pachatham area in Jamo – Kashmir (Indian province – formerly the state) them for the Kashmir disputed (the geographical area of Pakistan, India and China).
The missile blows are a dangerous sharpening of friction between the neighbors of South Asia, who have waged multiple wars since they were detached from the British colonialist India in 1947. Since the last war, in 1999, it has not been made in 2019. This would have a high risk: both countries have reinforced their armies, including their nuclear weapons equipment.
For days, the international community has been pressure on Pakistan and India to move away from the brink of war.
A UN spokesman said that Secretary General Antonio Guterres was « very worried » for the Indian blows along the international border and control line. « It is calling for the maximum military restraint from both countries. People cannot withstand a military confrontation between India and Pakistan, « the spokesman said.
This dangerous development is recorded at a time when the two countries play a decisive role in the US -China trade war.
India informed USA of its blows in Pakistan
India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Docal informed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shortly after the blows launched by New Delhi on Pakistan’s territory, the Indian Embassy in Washington announced.
« India’s actions were targeted and accurate, » the embassy said in a press release, which released that Rubio, who is also performing the current White House official’s debt, was informed of the « measures taken ».
What is « Sindoor business »?
Sindoor is the military code name for what India described as a « precision hit » in Pakistan, and was held in what New Delhi said it was a response to the attack on Indian tourists on April 22 by suspicious rebels in Indian.
It is a reference to the red Bermilio, or dust that many Hindu women wear on their forehead after marriage. April attack on civilians in the Indian Kashmir administration left several widows. In the days that followed the attack, the image of a woman next to her husband’s lifeless body became viral, a symbol of the pain and the tightening that suffered the victims of the attack, as CNN reports.
