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Things not going well in the world: India-Pakistan edition

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They need to back down before someone does something really stupid and we have the greatness of the current American President leading the global superpower reaction to prevent nuclear war. 

Neighbors squabble. It's not like they have nukes or anything...

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kashmir

Looks like Pakistan airspace is still shutdown. No commercial traffic. 

Good thing we've got a steady hand at the tiller.

anyway, gonna take a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig 'ole sip of water...

1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

Good thing we've got a steady hand at the tiller.

anyway, gonna take a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig 'ole sip of water...

If India and Pakistan really decide to escalate, they're going to escalate. Regardless of what the U.S. or any Western country thinks is proper.

But that won't happen until one side starts targeting civilians. So far it's been unusually aggressive sabre-rattling from both countries.

Yeah, I saw this... India/Pakistan at it again?

UnpleasantBlandIlsamochadegu-size_restri

Yawn.

So you have two major international crises, your former personal lawyer testifying before Congress that you committed multiple crimes while in office, and you're planning to spend the day sucking off a North Korean Dictator. Just another day in the life of Trump. 

Make no mistake, this shit happening with India and Pakistan nuclear armed to the gils is absolutely terrifying. Now, consider that Trump is president. 

Surrender Poonia.  Better than Surrender Cobra 

Edited by Trey3216

33 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Yeah, I saw this... India/Pakistan at it again?

UnpleasantBlandIlsamochadegu-size_restri

Yawn.

 

OK Rocko.

The usual suspects with an imbecile as US president. You don't think that makes it a little more worrisome?

No, Hugo, I don't.  If you do, rah for you.

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10 minutes ago, satyanash said:

 

Scary stuff.  

Who is acting to calm this down?

8 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Scary stuff.  

Who is acting to calm this down?

The Arabs. 

This is tough to hear. A couple my DevOps guys just took several weeks off to visit family in India. A terrible way to spend vacation time.

 

13 hours ago, phdhorn said:

Yeah, I saw this... India/Pakistan at it again?

UnpleasantBlandIlsamochadegu-size_restri

Yawn.

This....

Scandalous! 

 

This is when you want to make sure you are going to the right Hyderabad. 

13 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Scary stuff.  

Who is acting to calm this down?

Trump said he had it under control.  

A lot of companies are gonna be fucked when their India tech shops and call centers are bombed out of existence.

3 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

A lot of companies are gonna be fucked when their India tech shops and call centers are bombed out of existence.

Unemployment will drop below 2% here

30 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Shit might be meeting fan.

 

Pakistan started up shelling earlier in the day. India couldn't really respond, as their pilot was still in Pakistan's hands.

Now it's becoming two-sided and increasing in intensity.

Edited by satyanash

Its weird to see so much shit talking between Indians and Pakistanis on Twitter.

Poonch is on the Indian side of the LoC, Kotli is on the Pakistani side.

 

Great article from Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States.

On Friday, Pakistan released an Indian pilot shot down in Pakistani-controlled territory amidst rising hostilities. But the peace gesture, as Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called it, is unlikely to end the conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. There appears to be international consensus that, to truly end hostilities, Pakistan must shut down support for terrorist groups whose actions have brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war several times over the past two decades.

Since 1999, crises between India and Pakistan have tended to evolve in four stages. First, eager to get international attention for the dispute over Kashmir, a Pakistan-based militant group launches an attack in India or Indian-controlled Kashmir. Then India threatens retaliation, which in the past involved mobilization of troops along the Pakistan border but this time comprised an air strike on a terrorist training camp inside Pakistan. Faced with Indian threats, Pakistan raises the specter of nuclear confrontation and asks the United States and other major powers to help defuse the situation. Finally, American diplomacy provides Pakistan a face-saver, and the threat of war subsides.

This scenario played out in 1999, during the Kargil crisis. It was repeated after the attack on India’s Parliament in December 2001 and again following the carnage at several Mumbai hotels in November 2008.

As Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States during the Mumbai attacks, I witnessed firsthand the American efforts to smooth out India-Pakistan tensions. President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and national security adviser Stephen Hadley spoke on the phone with prime ministers of both countries multiple times. The CIA shared intelligence that enabled Pakistan to arrest several individuals connected with the attacks. But after the immediate threat of Indian retaliation had passed, Pakistan backed away from punishing the attack’s masterminds and perpetrators.

In 2016, India tried to change the pattern by following a terrorist attack inside its territory with a surgical strike against a terrorist launchpad across the de-facto border in Kashmir. Pakistan avoided escalation by pretending that the strike had not taken place. As in 2016, the latest confrontation also deviates from the usual pattern. After a Feb. 14 terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir, India undertook a retaliatory strike on an alleged militant facility in Pakistan. Pakistan responded to India’s strike with an air raid of its own. It was while chasing the intruding Pakistani aircraft that the Indian pilot being released on Friday was shot down.

In military terms, Pakistan’s military-intelligence establishment counts on India’s fear of conflict escalating to the nuclear level while planning terrorist attacks. Instead of nuclear weapons being a deterrent to war, this approach allows for low-cost, low-intensity war, which can be carried on endlessly under a nuclear umbrella. But now India feels it has found a soft spot where it can strike — whether on ground using special forces, as in 2016, or using air strikes as they have in the current crisis — without crossing the threshold for all-out war between the nuclear powers.

These hostilities come amidst rising hyper-nationalist sentiment in both India and Pakistan. Politicians and shrill anchors on Indian evening television talk shows have been clamoring for India to teach Pakistan a lesson over its support for terrorism. On the Pakistani side, national pride has been constantly invoked to assert that India cannot dictate to Pakistan. Yet Pakistan’s support for terrorist groups is well documented, even as it has been officially denied by successive Pakistani governments. Pakistan-based groups, operating openly despite official bans, have often been eager to claim responsibility for attacks inside India.

It might be a bitter pill to swallow for some Pakistanis, but Pakistan’s 30-year strategy of supporting insurgents and militants in Kashmir has failed. Pakistan’s policy has made life more difficult for the Kashmiri Muslims it claims to support. Violence supported from across the border has resulted in an Indian clampdown and obscured international concern about human rights in Kashmir.

Moreover, most countries, including some of Pakistan’s few remaining friends abroad, failed to even mention Kashmir as an issue during the current imbroglio. China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — all of whom have recently promised significant amounts of loans and investment to help bail out Pakistan’s troubled economy — spoke of the need for de-escalation but said nothing that could be construed as support for Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir.

In fact, world leaders seem to have changed their tack and ignored the well-worn four stages of previous India-Pakistan crises. For example, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, emphasized “the urgency of Pakistan taking meaningful action against terrorist groups operating on its soil” along with leaders of France and Germany, instead of focusing on finding a face-saver for Pakistan.

That means Pakistan can no longer link its tolerance or support for terrorist groups with the grievances of the people of Kashmir in hope of securing international attention or support. That — along with Indian attention to Kashmiri human rights concerns — might be the most effective means of avoiding recurrent India-Pakistan conflagrations in the future.

2 hours ago, satyanash said:

Poonch is on the Indian side of the LoC, Kotli is on the Pakistani side.

Kashmir is not on side one of Led Zeppelin IV. 

14 hours ago, satyanash said:
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“Everyone has a role to play in ensuring misinformation doesn’t spread on the internet and we encourage people who use Twitter not to share information unless they can verify that it’s true,” a spokeswoman for Twitter said.

Just dont stop tweeting and loading ads. Come on people, only tweet what you know is true.....but dont stop tweeting, we gotta pay bills.

What is the reason each side is returning prisoners and dead people?

14 minutes ago, Parliament said:

What is the reason each side is returning prisoners and dead people?

Geneva Convetions

43 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Geneva Convetions

I never heard of it!

Imran khan lives with his dad and mom

A leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed (terrorist group responsible for the first attack) just held a sermon in Peshawar, capital of the Pakistani province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He is openly calling for jihad against India, in the middle of one of Pakistan's bigger cities, just in case you were unsure as to how seriously Pakistan is going after terrorists on its own soil 🙄

This is being reported by Taha Siddiqui, an award-winning Pakistani journalist who fled the country last year in 2018 after reporting on military abuses in the country and surviving a subsequent assassination attempt. He's now a correspondent for Al Jazeera.

 

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  • 6 years later...

Hoo boy.

Horrific terrorist attack happened yesterday in Pahalgam, Kashmir. 26 Indian tourists were captured, lined up and killed by terrorists belonging to The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. The terrorists infiltrated the mountainous and remote India-Pakistan border, and have likely fled back across (a manhunt is currently underway).

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/asia/gunmen-open-fire-jammu-kashmir-intl/index.html

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According to eyewitness reports, the terrorists specifically targeted and killed non-Muslims, confirming the attack as religiously motivated.

Diplomatic retaliation is already underway. Today India announced the suspension of the Indus water treaty, a move that could lead to significant water shortages in Pakistan, until Pakistan "credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism." Diplomats in New Delhi and Islamabad have been recalled.

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For its part, Pakistan has claimed the incident was a false flag, as is their standard response to such incidents. The Pakistani government has also called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council to discuss an "appropriate response."

20 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Hoo boy.

Horrific terrorist attack happened yesterday in Pahalgam, Kashmir. 26 Indian tourists were captured, lined up and killed by terrorists belonging to The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. The terrorists infiltrated the mountainous and remote India-Pakistan border, and have likely fled back across (a manhunt is currently underway).

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/asia/gunmen-open-fire-jammu-kashmir-intl/index.html

INTERACTIVE-Gunmen-kill-at-least-26-in-Kashmir-1745387387.thumb.png.da696c02f4cd9671149f813711435a8f.png

According to eyewitness reports, the terrorists specifically targeted and killed non-Muslims, confirming the attack as religiously motivated.

Diplomatic retaliation is already underway. Today India announced the suspension of the Indus water treaty, a move that could lead to significant water shortages in Pakistan, until Pakistan "credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism." Diplomats in New Delhi and Islamabad have been recalled.

GpPToEYX0AApeNh(1).jpg.01138680be9a0f5245a3ee20a6fc4f12.jpg

For its part, Pakistan has claimed the incident was a false flag, as is their standard response to such incidents. The Pakistani government has also called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council to discuss an "appropriate response."

Unlike the U.S., Pakistan actually does have a deep state of mostly unaccountable and uncontrolled elements within the security and military sectors.  The long coziness with Islamist terror groups has gotten them into a wag the dog situation where the relationship is not entirely instrumental and true believers and radicals have a home in the apparatus. 
 

It’s hard to see how this happened without at least the tacit approval of ISI or a part of it. At the same time, entirely plausible that Pakistan’s political leadership was unaware. The fact that it happened in Kashmir will lead India to calibrate a bit in a way an attack in non-disputed territory would not. 

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