Meanwhile tensions between India and Pakistan have also flared up:
Another conflict made by the UK with similarities to how the UK exited Palestine.
More fallout from tensions in the ME and general destruction of diplomacy / international law?
All the familiar language (actors) and targets are there.
Missiles fired into Pakistan
Biggest peacetime missile attack ever
The strikes are the most extensive missile attacks by India on Pakistan and the territory it controls outside the wars the nuclear-armed neighbours have fought.
In 2019, Indian fighter jets bombed Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after a suicide bomber killed 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir.
This time, Pakistan claims India hit three cities while India says it struck nine sites. Either way, the attack is unprecedented.
India briefed US after missile attack on Pakistan
Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval briefed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shortly after the attacks against Pakistan, the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC, says.
“India’s actions have been focused and precise,” the embassy said in a statement.
It added that Rubio, who is also Trump’s acting US national security adviser, had been briefed “on the actions taken”.
A simple guide to India, Pakistan and Kashmir
The end of British colonial rule and the partition of British India in August 1947 led to the creation of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. At the time, princely states such as Jammu and Kashmir, situated in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, were given the option to accede to either country.
The maharaja of Kashmir initially sought independence from both countries, but later chose to join India after Pakistan invaded, triggering the first war from 1947 to 1948. Two more full-scale wars over the region – in 1965 and 1971 – followed.
Today, Pakistan administers the northern and western portions of Kashmir, namely Azad Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan. India administers the southern and southeastern parts, including the Kashmir Valley and its biggest city, Srinagar, as well as Jammu and Ladakh.
All told, the region spans 222,200 square kilometres (85,800sq miles). About 4 million people currently live in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and 13 million in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The population is mostly Muslim.
Read more about the history here.
