Nuclear Warning: India Carries Out Strikes Along Pakistan Border
Pakistan has threatened India with nuclear retaliation in response to India’s Thursday morning “surgical strikes” on terrorist camps in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. India say the strikes were in response to the Uri attack on 18 September 2016, which was reported as “the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades”. Pakistan deny that that a cross-border strike took place, insisting that Indian troops fired small arms across the Line of Control, killing two soldiers and injuring nine others. A Pakistani security official warned that Pakistan would consider a cross-border strike by India an “act of war,” and would justify the use of tactical nuclear weapons in self-defense. Zee News reports: The operation by the Indian Army has left Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rattled. Pakistan has dismissed as “fabrication of truth” India’s claim that it has conducted a military operation across the LoC, terming it as a “quest” by India to create media hype by rebranding cross-border fire as a surgical strike. Eleven days after terrorists killed 18 Indian soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, Indian Special Forces targeted “some terrorist teams” positioned at launch pads on the LoC, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, the Director General Military Operations (DGMO), told the media here. External [...]
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