© ReutersA city view of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, on 7 May
"No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted," the statement added according to Reuters, in a 'counter-terror' operation dubbed "Operation Sindoor".
India identified that it hit the terrorist infrastructure of Islamist groups in retaliation for the April 22 terror attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir which killed 26 in the scenic Pahalgam area.
The victims had been singled out by the gunmen, which the Indian government has suggested were sponsored by Pakistan, for being Hindu in a sectarian mass killing.
"These steps come in the wake of the barbaric Pahalgam terrorist attack in which 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen were murdered. We are living up to the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable," India's statement read in the wake of the new military action.
The fact that India is taking pains to let the Pakistani side know that no official military sites were targeted strongly suggests New Delhi is trying to strike without it leading to escalation.
Tensions have been soaring since last month, with mirror build-ups of forces on both sides of the disputed Line of Control (LOC) which separates the two countries. There have been military drills, and even recent ballistic missile test launches by Pakistan.
Pakistani security officials have said a child was killed and two others were injured in the early Thursday (local) attack. India said that these were "sites where terrorist attacks against India have been planned."
The statement continued, "Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. It claimed, "India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution."
Dubious reports quickly emerged that jets have been shot down, but these claims appears to be completely unverified. Fake claims and counter-claims have been flying in the hours after these cross-border strikes.
Is this the big escalation many have feared, or will this episode of attacks on apparently unaffiliated terror groups within Pakistan's zone of control lead to de-escalation and cooling? It depends largely on if Pakistan responds militarily. The two sides hate each other and have fought at least three historic wars.
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Yes education of Young Global Leaders comes to mind recently, but go back to Mao Zedong's education as well. Xi just a more advanced technocracy form of it.
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Where energy flows... growth.
In the body as outside the body. Lolll keep pointing fingers....
Now read your projection.
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Grow up.
Really I do know what is happening.
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Join the army and be all you could be, rotting flesh, amongst the rubble piles.
I heard the military bands playing with false and terrible cheer in the streets as the recruits went off to war. I had beat the bed with my fists then, and cried tears of rage that young men must march off to this artful ad calculated accompaniment to places where wagon roads would be laid across their bones.
Why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?
Who funded this 'previously unknown' group of gunmen? Who put them together and supplied their weapons and means of escape?
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I pray that the leaders of India and Pakistan will wake up to the fact that they are being played.