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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.
If this escalates into a all out war I’m curious to see whose side the average Lemmy user will be taking. I tried doing some research into the history of this conflict and it seems so messy that from my point of view pretty much both sides are to blame.
India.
Modi is bad, but it’s still a democracy while Pakistan is literally a fascist junta founded on genocide while India is a multicultural nation who has religious tolerance in their constitution.
As an atheist, Pakistan is the opposite of everything I believe in.
Not counting all their terrorism over the decades including supporting the taliban and bin ladin.
Course, would prefer if modi died in a fire, but even at its worst Pakistan can’t compare.
Inb4 .mls start screaming that Pakistan is the true victim and India is worse than Israel, which is ironic because Pakistan literally either expelled or exterminated all their Hindus at the partition.
I’m not informed enough to take a side.
The sides have been changing a bit with Pakistan v china relations and India supporting Russia during the war. It’s a bit complex. Pakistan still has laws that give the death sentence for apostasy, but while India doesn’t the ultra nationalist Hindu party under Modi have been harassing and killing Muslims, so they are effectively doing the same thing. The US has been a bit cool towards Pakistan after the afghan war finally ended. But they still sell them lots of high end military equipment, much better quality than the Soviet slop India has.
I encourage you to read up on the history. It’s quite interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan–United_States_relations
Remind me again which country did the US sneak into to kill Bin Laden.
Fuck off with your high horse on this both sides bullshit
I’m on the side of the civilians like in the Israel-Hamas-Conflict
IMO
Modi is Trump light, but Pakistan is led by a combination of ignorance, misogyny, and incompetence that is geopolitically destabilizing.
Not sure how “light” I’d call that fucker
Also wird Lemmy zu Pakistan stehen.
The ultimate colprit is British colonialism, and the way the border is drawn after they left
They didn’t draw the border.
Gandhi wanted to keep it unified, but the Muslims weren’t willing, so they drove out all the Hindus, and exterminated any who were in the way.
Yeah they caused the problem but they won’t be able to solve it at this point. It’s not like they could just go and redraw the lines.
That’s my intrepretation of it as well but that doesn’t really offer any solutions or clarity to the current situation. In most conflicts like this you can always go even further back in history to justify your cause.