Prime Minister Modi gave a green wave for a military response to the Kashmir attack, imputed to Pakistan
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave Tuesday a green wave to a military operation as reprisals to the attack with 26 dead in Indian Kashmir and for which Pakistan held AFP, taken by Agerpres.
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On the occasion of a meeting with closed doors with chiefs of staff, Prime Minister Modi “He told the armed forces that they have the freedom to decide the targets, the moment and the way of the Indian response to the terrorist attack that targeted civilians in Kashmir.”told AFP a government source, subject to anonymity.
According to the source, Modi a “Reaffirmed the national determination to give a decisive blow, and expressed its full confidence in the ability of the Indian armed forces.”
On April 22, several armed individuals killed 26 people in the Tourist city of Pahalgam, in the Kashmir part administered by India.
Before there was any claim, the New Delhi government has imputed the Islamabad's responsibility, the bloodiest of the last 20 years that targeted civilians in this Muslim majority region.
Pakistan immediately denied any involvement and asked for a “neutral investigation”.
The two neighboring nuclear powers are since then on the war. Governments applied each other's diplomatic sanctions, and their citizens were asked to leave the neighboring country at the latest on Tuesday.
Shifts of fires on the border
According to the Indian army, exchanges of light weapons have been held for several nights between Pakistani and Indian soldiers along “The control line”, fThe de facto rontic that separates the kashmir between India and Pakistan, but no victims were reported.
Pakistan did not confirm the armed incidents from Monday night to Tuesday, but inhabitants of the Pakistani of the “Control line” told AFP that they had heard shots.
Instead, Pakistan announced on Tuesday that he had “shot down” an Indian surveillance drone, without specifying the date of the incident, not confirmed by the Indian side.
Experts are afraid of several days of a military response of India, in a context in which the public opinions in the two camps are to the maximum.
China, a major regional actor, launched again on Tuesday to his two neighbors a call to “restraint” and “Management of differences through dialogue”, for “maintaining peace and regional stability.”
Kashmir, a majority Muslim, was divided between India and Pakistan to obtain their independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.
The two neighbors, who wore several wars in the meantime, continue to claim the sovereignty of the whole territory.
Since 1989, the struggles between a separatist insurrection and those around 500,000 Indian soldiers in the Indian part have resulted in tens of thousands of dead.
After the April 22 attack, the Indian security forces launched a huge search for the authors and their accomplices.
Modi promised publicly last week that they would be hunted “Until the end of the earth.”
Indian police broadcast the robot portrait of three of them, two being Pakistani citizens.
She accuses them of being part of a group close to Let, the Jihadist movement Lashkar-e-Taiba based in Pakistan, suspected for attacks that made 166 dead in Mumbai in 2008.
So far, almost 2,000 people have been arrested or interrogated in the investigation agency (NIA) investigation.
Also, the Indian army proceeded to destroy approximately ten houses that belonged, according to the authorities, the suspects, arousing the anger of some local elected and part of the inhabitants, which denounces a “collective punishment”.
