New Delhi (AP) – India and Pakistan rush to military and diplomatic resources to respond to a crisis triggered by A massacre in cashmere under Indian control This has increased fears of a conflict between nuclear rivals.
India criticizes Pakistan for having supported the armed men behind the murder of April 22 of 26 people, most Indian Hindu tourists, and described it as a terrorist attack. Islamabad denies the accusation.
Both The countries have expelled diplomats and nationalsas well as closed their borders and aerial components. India has also suspended a critical water sharing treaty with Pakistan.
A Pakistani minister last week said that his country had “Credible intelligence” that an Indian strike was imminent. So far, there has been no military action from India.
Here is where the situation has been since the attack:
World leaders urge de -escalation
After a first wave of attacks on the attack on tourists, world leaders call both parties To avoid climbing. The United Nations Security Council is expected to organize closed consultations on Monday to discuss the situation.
International pressure has stacked New Delhi and Islamabad – who fought two of their three wars against the disputed cashmere – to facilitate tensions. High officials of the United States, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia have urged the two parties to be restrained. Iran has proposed mediation.
Meanwhile, the two nations launched an aggressive diplomatic campaign to consolidate the support of their positions.
India has made efforts to highlight what it called the “cross -border” attack by informing diplomats of dozens of countries.
“This time diplomatic awareness was quite extensive and the idea of India would be to present all the evidence it has to its partners and to argue that whatever the actions that could come for its part, the support of its partners and allies,” said Harsh Pant, head of foreign policy to the Observer Research Group in New Delhi.
Pakistan proposed to cooperate with an international attack on the attack and contacted dozens of foreign diplomats. Islamabad, however, said that he would equal or go beyond any military action in India.
Tensions on the border, fears in cashmere
The Indian army said its troops have shots exchanged With Pakistani soldiers along the de facto border, the control line, in cashmere, blaming the neighbor for an unlikely shot for 10 consecutive nights. Islamabad, on the other hand, accused India of raping a ceasefire.
In cashmere, Indian forces launched a huge operation to hunt the attackers on April 22. At least 2,000 people have been held and questioned. Some have been arrested under anti -terrorist laws that allow authorities to have people without formal accusations. Indian forces have also exploded at least nine family houses of suspicious rebels, which are fighting for independence or merger with Pakistan.
Repression has led to fear and anxiety to cashmere, arousing traumatic memories of the insurrection of decades of the region and the brutal response of India.
Praveen, of which ETHI, principal analyst of the international crisis group, said that “Cachemiris are always the first to bear the weight of political or military tensions between India and Pakistan”.
“The collective punishment imposed on the cashmiris and the violence of the state were ranging against them inflamed the conflict,” said QUESHI.
India and Pakistan are flexing
Monday, the Pakistani army assisted A short -range missile, the second test launch From an average ballistic missile SATURDAY.
The India Navy also tested the missiles in fire last week.
In 2019, a skirmish between the two countries almost became out of control, before the American intervention was reduced by tensions.
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Associated press writers Aijaz Hussain in Srinagar, India and Rajesh Roy in New Delhi contributed to this report.
