India Strikes Pakistan Two Weeks After Kashmir Terrorist Assault

India mentioned early Wednesday that it had carried out strikes on Pakistan, two weeks after greater than two dozen civilians had been killed in a terrorist assault in Indian-administered Kashmir.

The Indian authorities mentioned its forces had struck 9 websites in Pakistan and on Pakistan’s facet of the disputed Kashmir area. Pakistani army officers mentioned not less than eight individuals had been killed and 35 others wounded after six locations had been hit in Punjab Province and its a part of Kashmir.

Whereas India lately has struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir and areas near it during times of rising tensions, the assault on Wednesday on Punjab, in Pakistani territory outdoors the contested area, represented an escalation within the battle between the 2 nuclear-armed international locations.

After the assaults, India was bracing for a response from Pakistan, its neighbor and nemesis for greater than seven a long time. The 2 nations have fought a number of wars, the latest in 1999, and have edged to the brink greater than as soon as since then. As tensions have sharpened once more, world leaders have warned of probably dire penalties if the 2 sides fail to de-escalate.

India mentioned on Wednesday that it had struck Pakistan after gathering proof “pointing in the direction of the clear involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists” in final month’s assault on civilians in a vacationer space in Kashmir. It mentioned that its army actions had been “measured, accountable and designed to be nonescalatory in nature.” It added that it had focused solely “recognized terror camps.”