India Bombs Civilians in Pakistan - The Wednesday AM Quickie 5/7/25
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THE BIG NEWS
'Act of War': India Hits Pakistan with Missiles, Killing at Least 19
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says his country "has every right to give a robust response" to a missile barrage launched by India yesterday, an attack that India justified as retaliation for a terrorist attack on tourists in the disputed region of Kashmir two weeks ago. The Indian government has provided no evidence for its claim that the Pakistani government supported the terrorism in Kashmir. Both countries have nuclear weapons, and now the conflict may escalate into something even more dangerous.
Yesterday's attacks by India killed at least 19 people, including a child, and inured at least 38, according to the Associated Press. The targets included at least four mosques, which is part of the reason why Pakistan calls the Indian strikes an act of war "shamelessly" targeting the civilian population. Pakistan claims to have shot down five Indian military jets; commercial airlines have rerouted flights away from Pakistani airspace. Both countries' armies also traded "heavy exchanges of fire" along Kashmir's Line of Control, the de facto border. Civilians in Kashmir say they are "living in constant fear."
Prior to yesterday's missile strikes, experts noted that India's far-right Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi had domestic political reasons for attacking Pakistan, and in that sense, it appears to have worked. Leaders of the opposition liberal Indian National Congress party have responded with praise for the Indian Armed Forces, saying "solidarity is the need of the hour."
New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, says she is "gravely concerned by reports of military escalation" and implores India and Pakistan to pursue diplomacy, adding that "the world can ill afford instability in South Asia." Donald Trump calls the situation "a shame," which he hopes will sort itself out "very quickly." Yeah.
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