Two nuclear powers are again in the Clinch. After India’s air force had flown in on Tuesday night for the first Time since 1971, an attack on Pakistani territory and shot down Pakistan according to its own data on Wednesday, two Indian fighter planes. An Indian Pilot has now been fixed.
Pakistan’s army spokesman Asif Ghafoor, published on Twitter a photo of the visible facial injuries Lieutenant Colonel. Then ordered of India, Ministry of foreign Affairs according to its own information to the Pakistani Ambassador and complained about this “vulgar display” of the prisoners, which is contrary to international law and the Geneva Convention. India expect his immediate, safe return.
(image: Keystone/AP via the Pakistani military)
According to the Indian representation of the attack by the Pakistani air force had been subject to military installations on Indian territory. India gave him a shot and a Jet from Pakistan shot down. In India, I lost an interceptor.
decades-old dispute
At the heart of the decades-old conflict between the neighboring countries, the area of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. After the end of British rule over the subcontinent in 1947 and the splitting of British India into India and Pakistan remained the Status open in the first place. Both India and Pakistan claimed the Himalayan valley. They led the 1947 and 1965 wars because of the area, in 1999, there was re-battles.
Both countries are proficient in each part of the valley of Kashmir. The so-called “control line” is considered the De-facto border. In the Indian part of the population, in contrast to the Rest of the Hindu – majority country is predominantly Muslim- there since the end of the 1980s, violence between separatists and security forces.
India accuses the Pakistani military intelligence service, the ISI, of supporting Islamist terrorists in Indian part of Kashmir. Pakistan denies this.
attack out of training camp
India’s air strike on Tuesday, a training camp of the Islamist terrorist group Jaish met, according to the Ministry of foreign Affairs-e-Mohammed. This was a suicide attack with a car bomb on 14. February in the Indian part of Kashmir, in the case of the 40 Indian security forces killed claimed. She was also to have been an attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001, which almost led to a war.
India was with the air RAID “a very large payment” pair of Jaish-e-Mohammed were killed. Residents of the affected area at the request of the German press-Agency, you are neither fatalities nor major damage from the bombs are known.
call offer Pakistan
In a televised address to the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan offered on Wednesday India talks. “With the weapons we have both – we can afford a miscalculation?”, he asked. The government of India, the hindu nationalist party BJP, Prime Minister Narendra modi is under pressure to show strength, because in a few months, a parliamentary election is pending.
In both countries, some media stachelten to Patriotic zeal. In the Pakistani television, told retired generals, the Pakistani army is the Indian superior. Indian media reported, citing anonymous government sources, India’s air attack have killed more than 300 terrorists.
in addition to the recent air attacks have there been in the past few days, also exchange of fire across the line of control. In the meantime, the airspace in the area was suspended on Wednesday over a large area.
Many Nations are concerned
a number of countries expressed concern about the Situation. Many of them demanded that Pakistan consistently against terrorist groups – including Germany and the United States.
The EU called on the nuclear powers of India and Pakistan to “utmost restraint”. The military escalation “has the potential to be serious and lead to dangerous consequences for the two countries and the Region as a whole,” said EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday.
Also in India and Pakistan, many people were concerned. Some took it with gallows humor – for example, the Indian Journalist, Shivam Vij, asked on Twitter: “what is your last wish before the nuclear Armageddon?” (fal/sda)
Created: 27.02.2019, 19:43 PM
