7: Pakistan

Pakistan reserves the right and will respond to this aggression at a time, place & means of our own choice.

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India Strikes Pakistan but Is Said to Have Lost Jets Officials and witnesses said that at least two Indian aircraft had crashed after India struck Pakistani targets, escalating the conflict between the nuclear powers.

Pakistan’s Most Powerful Man Steps Out of the Shadows to Confront India The army chief, Gen. Syed Asim Munir, who usually works behind the scenes, has been shaping Pakistan’s tone in the crisis over Kashmir with his own tough talk. ......... On Thursday, standing atop a tank during a military exercise, General Munir addressed troops in the field. “Let there be no ambiguity,” he said. “Any military misadventure by India will be met with a swift, resolute and notch-up response.” That was a reference to

Pakistan’s vow to match or exceed any Indian strike...........

....... after his country has struggled for years with political divisions and economic hardship. Those troubles have dented the steadfast loyalty that Pakistanis had felt for decades toward the military establishment, which has long had a hidden hand in guiding the country’s politics. ........ his belief that the long-running conflict with India is at heart a religious one. ........ The United States and the United Nations have called on India and Pakistan, both of which have nuclear weapons, to work toward de-escalation. In addition, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Asim Ahmad, said on Friday that Pakistani diplomats and government ministers had spoken with their Chinese counterparts about the tensions with India. China is an ally of Pakistan and has economic interests there. ........... India will pursue “every terrorist and their backers to the ends of the earth.” ........ General Munir has spoken since the Pahalgam attack in explicitly ideological terms that indicate he is disinclined to believe that long-term peace with India is possible. ........... His framing of Kashmir as Pakistan’s “jugular vein” has particularly struck a nerve in India. In the same speech, General Munir said, “We will not leave our Kashmiri brethren in their heroic struggle that they are waging against Indian occupation.” ............. “The Pahalgam outrage followed just after General Munir’s speech,” Mr. Gupta, said. “India would have to be frightfully complacent not to draw the connection, especially as he had raked up hostility to Hindus, which no Pakistani leader — civil or military — had done for a long time.” ............. In 2019, when a suicide bombing in Kashmir triggered Indian airstrikes and a brief military escalation, General Munir was the leader of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or I.S.I.

His tenure ended just months later when Prime Minister Imran Khan removed him.

............... Mr. Khan would later oppose General Munir’s elevation to army chief, and their relationship has remained hostile. After falling out with the military leadership, Mr. Khan was ousted in April 2022. General Munir assumed his command as army chief seven months later. Mr. Khan, who retains widespread support among the Pakistani public, has been in prison for two years. ........ General Munir has also presided over growing military control of Pakistani politics and society, restricting dissent, critics say. ........... Aggressive public messaging, rather than quiet diplomacy, has become the primary channel of communication. In such a climate, the risk of miscalculation is acute. .........

Jaish chief says 10 family members, 4 aides killed in Indian strikes: Report Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar said that 10 members of his family and four aides were killed in 'Operation Sindoor', which was India's response to the Pahalgam massacre wherein Pakistan-backed terrorists killed 26 people, mostly tourists.

'No Regret, No Despair': 10 Of Masood Azhar's Family Killed In Op Sindoor Fifty-six-year-old Masood Azhar, listed as an international terrorist by the UN Security Council, has been involved in the conspiracy behind multiple terror attacks in India

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India vs. Pakistan Is Also U.S. vs. China When It Comes to Arms Sales Increasing Western military support to India, and China’s to Pakistan, signals a shift in global alignments — and another potential flashpoint for international tensions. ......... The last time India and Pakistan faced off in a military confrontation, in 2019, U.S. officials detected enough movement in the nuclear arsenals of both nations to be alarmed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was awakened in the middle of the night. He worked the phone “to convince each side that the other was not preparing for nuclear war,” he wrote in his memoir. .......... Pakistan, whose relevance to the United States has waned since the end of the war in Afghanistan, is no longer buying the American equipment that the United States once encouraged it to acquire. Pakistan has instead turned to China for the vast majority of its military purchases. ........ The United States has cultivated India as a partner in countering China, while Beijing has deepened its investment in its advocacy and patronage of Pakistan as India has grown closer to the United States. ....... At the same time, relations between India and China have deteriorated in recent years over competing territorial claims, with clashes breaking out between the two militaries at times. And relations between the world’s two biggest powers, the United States and China, have hit a nadir as President Trump has launched a trade war against Beijing. .......... For its part, China has led public support for Pakistan, describing it as an “ironclad friend and all-weather strategic cooperative partner.” .......... Even as Pakistan was accused of playing a double game, harboring the Taliban’s leaders on its soil while aiding the American military presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. military poured in tens of billions of dollars in military assistance. The United States became Pakistan’s top supplier of weapons, with China remaining second. ......... Beijing, which was the source of only 38 percent of Pakistan’s weapons in the mid-2000s, has provided about 80 percent over the past four years .......... As India now confronts Pakistan, a bigger threat, China, is not only watching but also aiding its adversary. ............ U.S. officials worry that with the hyper-nationalism in both India and Pakistan, where two well-stocked militaries operate in a tight air corridor and amid mutual suspicion, even the smallest of mistakes or exceeding of orders could lead to catastrophic escalations.

Scenes From India’s Strikes in Kashmir and Pakistan