Pakistan has launched attacks on "multiple targets" across India, according to the media wing of Pakistan's military.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29410228

Pakistan has launched attacks on “multiple targets” across India, according to the media wing of Pakistan’s military.

In a statement, Pakistan said it has unleashed Operation Bunyan ul Marsoos (Solid Wall of Steel) in response to what it calls “continuous provocation” by India.

“Multiple targets in this operation are being engaged all across India,” the statement added.

Pakistan’s military said it used medium-range Fateh missiles to strike a missile storage facility and airbases in Pathankot and Udhampur.

The AP news agency said loud explosions have been heard in Indian-controlled Kashmir, in the disputed region’s two big cities of Srinagar and Jammu, and the garrison town of Udhampur.

Meanwhile, an Indian military source told Reuters that India has launched air operations in Pakistan, although no further details were given.

Pakistan’s military posted footage on X showing missiles being fired from what appeared to be a mobile launcher.

        • i_am_hard@sh.itjust.works
          42·
          14 hours ago

          Jammu is not Kashmir. Ladakh is not Kashmir. Kashmir is Kashmir. The name of the place is Jammu & Kashmir because that’s how India administers it. The demography, geography, and even the languages are separate.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
            21·
            14 hours ago

            Jammu[a] and Kashmir[b] (abbr. J&K) is a region administered by India as a union territory[1] and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region,

            Ladakh (/ləˈdɑːk/)[10] is a region administered by India as a union territory[1] and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.

            -Wikipedia.

            The name of the place is Jammu & Kashmir because that’s how India administers it.

            Okay and? What point are you even trying to make? Because that’s an administrative distinction that has no relation at all to the subject at hand.

              • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
                2·
                12 hours ago

                How is that nuance relevant here? Because again, the conflict between Pakistan and India (and China) is over Kashmir the region, not a particular administrative division. Pakistan claims all of Jammu and Kashmir and also Ladakh, and the anti-Indian insurgency and Indian reign of terror are in Jammu and Kashmir. When it comes to relations and conflicts with Pakistan, Jammu is Kashmir.

                • i_am_hard@sh.itjust.works
                  11·
                  12 hours ago

                  I don’t know if you are Pakistani or not but they claim none of Kashmir or Jammu or Ladakh. They claim that it should be an independent country. They just shelter “freedom fighters” who are militants/terrorists in the region. And since religion plays a big role in their claim, demography of the region is damn important. Also Jammu and Ladakh aren’t the areas where Indian govt rules with such a heavy hand as they do in Kashmir.

                  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
                    2·
                    12 hours ago

                    I don’t know if you are Pakistani or not but they claim none of Kashmir or Jammu or Ladakh. They claim that it should be an independent country.

                    I’m not Pakistani, but this information is easily available on Wikipedia.

                    Though these regions are in practice administered by their respective claimants, neither India nor Pakistan has formally recognised the accession of the areas claimed by the other. India claims those areas, including the area “ceded” to China by Pakistan in the Trans-Karakoram Tract in 1963, are a part of its territory, while Pakistan claims the entire region excluding Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract.

                    -Wikipedia on Kashmir. Also if you open the Wikipedia page on Pakistan or India you’ll find that Kashmir is highlighted as “territory claimed but not controlled”. Also while I’m not familiar with the details, Indian repression is very much existent in all of Jammu and Kashmir. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Jammu_and_Kashmir#Massacres