India-Pakistan Tensions On Verge Of Erupting Into War After Deadly Terror Attack

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1. SS: With the world already on edge about events in the Middle East, Europe, and the Pacific, a potential new conflict is brewing between the nuclear-armed nations of India and Pakistan. The long-simmering tensions between the two neighbors have boiled over in the wake of Tuesday’s deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region. Since then, both sides have taken diplomatic and military measures that further escalate the situation and some observers believe it could erupt into an armed conflict.

   India and Pakistan cancelled visas for their nationals to each other’s countries on Thursday, and Pakistan closed its airspace to Indian aircraft. In addition, Pakistan “has issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen/Mariners) for the Arabian Sea and initiated a naval live fire exercise, while putting its military on full alert in anticipation of a possible military response by India in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack,” The Print, an Indian news outlet, reported.

   India, meanwhile, has the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in the Arabian Sea. While the vessel deployed before the Kashmir attack, it is now doing loops in the area as a possible contingency, posited Damien Symon, a geo-intelligence researcher for The Intel Lab intelligence consultancy.

   New Delhi is also weighing the possibility of a limited airstrike on Pakistan, something it last did in 2019 after another deadly terror attack.

   “There are a variety of military options, short of a full-blown war, on the table,” the Times of India (TOI) reported, citing a senior military official. “It’s for the political leadership to take the final call. If there is a go-ahead, then the retaliatory strikes will be at a time and place of our choosing.”

   The “escalation risk is very high,” TOI reporter Rajat Pandit surmised to us. However, any conflict “will be limited action if it happens.”

2. yea cuz everything was starting to get too peaceful in my life i was wondering when the next “once in a lifetime” big event or war will happen.

3. No war. But india will definitely take bigger action this time. More than surgical strike. They already has started by terminating Indus Water treaty

4. I don’t India will take serious military action. Something le a ground action but that’s it.

   Our previous attempts simply did not deter Pakistan. Acts like the URI strike was very common between India pakistan between 1999-2003 they didn’t even bother to respond since it was for placating sentiments.

   Then balakot happened where we chose to hit a target SO OFF an main ones that the whole thing got wrapped in ambiguity, then the F16 shooting we had technical evidence but no physical one. Pakistan instead sent planes in India and symbolically dropped bombs in reciprocity. Combine these and we’ve basically had 0 deterrence.

   Even now our air force and navy are not OVERWHELMINGLY superior, we can’t do what America does which is attacking with impunity and suffering no losses.

   We can do diplomatic actions and that’s it.

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