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Mumbai India – Vice -President Vance said that the current climbing between India and Pakistan was “fundamentally not our business” because they exchanged blows on Thursday and early Friday evening with drones and projectiles, reaching places that have not been targeted for decades on each side.
Vance spoke of Fox News on Thursday evening, in response to a question on the question of whether the Trump administration was concerned about nuclear conflicts. “We want this thing to defuse itself as quickly as possible”, and added: “We cannot however control these countries.”
“What we can do is try to encourage these people to defuse a little, but we are not going to get involved in the midst of a war that is fundamentally not of our business and has nothing to do with the ability of America to control it.”
Vance said the administration was pursuing de -escalation through diplomatic channels and said that he did not think that nuclear war was a probable scenario. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that he spoke to the Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Pakistani Prime Minister.
“This could embrace both parties,” said Praveen Quihi, Indian analyst of the International Crisis Group, about Vance’s comments. He said that climbing between India and Pakistan has “struck a new threshold every day, and we don’t know when it will stop”.
Vance’s comments reported a more intermediate foreign policy, said Arifa Noor, columnist for the Liberal newspaper Dawn. During previous escalations in 2019 and 1999, Washington worked carefully to compose tensions.
The problem, she said, is “I don’t think there is another power that can enter this void” even if the two countries had long supported the United States to “intervene and talk about the two countries of the rim”. More than ever, she described them as “two nuclear powers which are intrinsically in a very unstable situation”.
She said that Pakistan has often asked for an international intervention because it considered itself to be the lowest party of its crisis of decades with India, largely in the disputed region of cashmere. This Himalayan territory is divided between the two countries and claimed by the two in its entirety.
The current series of tensions began after armed men killed 26 people, mainly Hindu tourists, to cashmere administered by the Indians at the end of April. India insisted that armed men were proxies for the Pakistani army. Pakistan denies any link with the attack.
In the night on Wednesday, India launched missile strikes across Pakistan, in what it said is reprisals. Pakistan said he had killed five Indian planes. Since then, the two parties have exchanged drone and projectile strikes.
Whose Crisis group said that Vance’s comments suggested that Washington could be sympathetic to the grievances of India, which “seems to have come to the conclusion that leaving this takes place a little more contributed to this effort to confront the threat of terror”.
Residents are held on the debris of structures destroyed in a government and education complex in Muridke, Pakistan on Wednesday after the Indian strikes.
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Friday, at least two projectiles landed near a military cantonment in the Pakistani city of Okara. The residents filmed a career on the ground, turning on a field while emitting plumes of smoke while the young men got rid of the path. Two residents independently described the NPR incident, but both asked for anonymity because they did not want to anger the Pakistani authorities, who did not comment on the incident.
On Friday, during a briefing, an Indian military officer said that her country had responded to what she had called a “escalation” by her rival by sending drones to four locations to Pakistan. Climbing was a reference to Pakistani drones targeting Indian cities during the night along a 760 -mile border section, the desert city of Jaisalmer in the northwest of India, in Poonch and Jammu in the peaks of the Himalayas of the Indian Kashmir – places that have not been targeted in conflicts for decades.
“There were dozens of fireballs in the sky,” said Gowher Ahmad, 43, from Jammu City, from the night dam. Friday was calm, but Ahmad said he feared the night.
JASPREET KAUR, from the border village of Ajote, said that most of the 10,000 inhabitants had fled. “The rest of us is huddled in the basement of a three-story building,” she said. Karamat Hussain, from another border village, Khari, said that many residents could not flee because they had to take care of their cattle, like his elderly parents.
While violence continues, India seems to repress criticism more carefully. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, an eminent preacher of the cashmere who advocates the independence of the territory, said on X that he was not allowed to attend the Muslim Friday prayers in the Kashmir of Friday in Indian. He shared a video of his sermon before before Friday and wrote: “I urge the two countries to defuse urgently and not to take this dangerous path, which can only cause destruction.”
The social media network X also said that it has received “decrees” from the Indian government to block more than 8,000 accounts, including press organizations, he said in a message on his global account. Those blocked seemed to include Anuradha Bhasin, a leading journalist from Cashmere, and The Wire, an independent information site based in New Delhi. Indian authorities did not respond to requests for comments.
Bilal Kuchay contributed Srinagar reports to cashmere administered in India.
