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The perpetrator of the attack was from Indian-administered Kashmir. [41] The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. [42] [43] [44] Pakistan condemned the attack, and denied any connection to it. [45] The airstrike occurred ahead of the 2019 Indian general election.
On 27 February 2019, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) conducted six airstrikes at multiple locations in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). [11] [12] The airstrikes were part of the PAF military operation codenamed Operation Swift Retort and were conducted in retaliation to the Indian Air Force (IAF) airstrike in Balakot just a day before on 26 February.
The 2019 India–Pakistan military standoff was a result of [56] a militant attack in February 2019, when a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy carrying security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
India said a Pakistan based militant group, Jaish-e Mohammed carried out Thursday's deadly attack on an Indian police convoy in disputed Kashmir, and demanded that its neighbor act against ...
The war, also called the First Kashmir War, started in October 1947 when Pakistan feared that the Maharaja of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu would accede to India. Following partition, princely states were left to choose whether to join India or Pakistan or to remain independent.
The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack killed 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force ...
Authorities say violence in the region has reduced significantly since 2019, when the Indian government stripped Kashmir of semi AP PHOTOS: Indian soldiers drill for counterinsurgency amid rise in ...
On 23 November the Indian army launched a massive attack. 120 mm heavy mortars and machine guns were used in the attack on Pakistani army posts. [81] Artillery fire and shelling from India targeted several Pakistani villages and struck a passenger bus near the dividing line in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday killing 9 civilians.