Islamabad, Pakistan (AP) – A massacre of tourist firearms April 22 has pushed India and Pakistan One more step in war, marking the greatest ventilation of relations since 2019.
The conflict between India and Pakistan is not uncommon, the two countries having periodically committed wars, clashes and skirmishes Since you get independence from British India in 1947.
What is different in this escalation frequency and intensity of strikes and reprisals.
Although the United States has declared that it would not intervene, it now offers assistance to “start constructive talks” between India and Pakistan to avoid future conflicts. But calls for restraint of the international community have not yet had an impact.
Here is a calendar of the way the last conflict took place:
April 22
Armed men shoot and kill at least 26 tourists In a Pahalgam complex In cashmere controlled by India, a major change in a regional conflict that has greatly spared civilians. Unidentified armed men also injured 17 other people. A group called cashmere resistance, which India accuses Pakistan of supporting, claims the attack.
Survivors tell the Associated Press That armed men asked people if they were Hindu and then opened fire.
April 23
India Declute diplomatic links, close the only functional land border crossing and suspends a crucial water sharing treaty which survived two wars and a major border skirmish between the two countries.
India is launching a man’s hunting for Pahalgam attackers. Pakistan denies its participation in the attack.
April 24
India and Pakistan cancel visas For nationals of each, establish a deadline to leave them. In retaliation, Pakistan closes its airspace for all airlines belonging to Indians, and suspends all trade with India, including to any third country.
Government ministers on both sides suggest that the dispute could degenerate from military action.
April 25
India says His troops exchanged Fire with Pakistani soldiers at the control line, the de facto border dividing the disputed cashmere region.
Pakistan warns that it could suspend an agreement that has established the control line, in what would be a major and disturbing step. The United Nations urge both parties to “exercise maximum compression”.
April 26
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif promises that his government will answer “With full strength and power” Indian tents to stop or divert the flow of water.
Iran offers mediation, while Trump says that he expects them to develop their differences. “There is a great tension between Pakistan and India, but there have always been,” he told journalists on the Air Force One.
April 30
Kashmir authorities controlled by India close dozens Stations in the picturesque Himalayan region after the murderous attack on tourists.
Troops from the two countries exchange shots above the control line for a fifth consecutive night.
Pakistan Minister of Information, Attaullah Tarar, said his government has “Credible intelligence” That India intends to carry out a military action against Pakistan within 24 to 36 hours.
May 1st
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Calls senior officials in India and Pakistan in order to defuse the crisis. The spokesman for the US State Department Tammy Bruce said that Rubio in his call with India expressed his pain in the murders in Pahalgam and reaffirmed “the United States’s commitment to cooperation with India against terrorism”.
Pakistan says Rubio stressed the need for both parties to “continue working together for peace and stability” in South Asia.
May 3
Pakistan tests A ballistic missile with a range of 450 kilometers (around 280 miles). The missiles are not dismissed towards the border area with India; They are normally drawn on the Oman Sea or the deserts of the province of southwest Balutchistan.
India suspends the exchange of all letters from Pakistan through air and surface tracks and prohibits the direct and indirect import of goods from its neighbor. It also prohibits Pakistani ships from entering its ports and prohibits Indian flag ships from visiting the Pakistani ports.
May 7
India pulls missiles on PakistanWho calls for the strikes an “act of war” and promises to avenge those who died in the attack before dawn.
Missiles kill 31 people, including women and children, to cashmere administered by Pakistan and the country’s Punjab province. THE target At least nine sites “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned,” said the Indian Defense Ministry.
Pakistan says it has shot down several Indian fighter planes.
May 8
India draws attack drones in PakistanKilling at least two civilians, said the Pakistani army. India, on the other hand, accuses its neighbor of trying its own attack and recognizes targeting the air defense system of its archrival.
India evacuates Thousands of people in villages Near the highly militarized border of the cashmere region. Flights remain suspended in more than two dozen airports In regions of the north and western India.
The Punjab province of Pakistan announces the immediate closure of all schools and other educational establishments.
May 9
India Suspends his biggest domestic cricket tournament For a week after climbing military tensions with Pakistan. Pakistan initially says that Move your own domestic T20 tournament To the United Arab Emirates because of the crisis, but then says that it will only postpone matches.
Several states in the north and western Indians have closed schools and other educational establishments.
US vice-president JD Vance said that a potential war between India and Pakistan would not be “our business”.
The army of India claims that drones have been seen in 26 places in many regions of the Indian states bordering Pakistan and cashmere controlled by India, including the main city of Srinagar. The drones have been followed and committed, he adds.
The group of seven nations, or G7, are asking for a “maximum reservoir” of India and Pakistan, warning that a new military climbing constitutes a serious threat to regional stability.
May 10
Pakistan said India fired missiles at air bases inside the country and that the reprisals are underway. Indian missiles Nur Khan Air Khan air base in the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, Murida air base in the city of Chakwal and the Rafiqui air base in the Jhang district, in the eastern province of Punjab, according to the chief spokesperson for the Pakistani army.
Pakistan says it has pulled missiles on Indian military positions.
The residents of the cashmere under Indian control report having heard noisy explosions in several places in the region, notably Srinagar, Jammu and the city of Udhampur garrison.
