India's attack on Pakistan is the worst struggle between the two nuclear powers of the last 25 years
The wreck of an unknown flight apparatus in the Wuyan area of Pampore, about 15 km from Srinagar. India launched the “Sindoor operation”, hitting nine targets in Pakistan. Photo source: SOPA IMAGES / DDP USA / Profimedia
India hit Nine Pakistan goals on Wednesday, which he qualified as “terrorist infrastructure”, two weeks after 26 people were killed in an Indian Kashmir, for which New Delhi blamed Islamabad, writes Reuters.
India, who has a Hindu majority, and Pakistan, with a majority Muslim population, controls each part of Kașmir, but claims the whole territory and wore three wars for it.
Islamabad states that six locations were targeted and that eight people were killed.
In the context in which rivals with nuclear weapons, which have wore three wars in the past, intensify fires and bombings along the de facto border in Kashmir, Reuters has chronology of the main military and diplomatic escalations since 1999.
May-Iulie 1999:
India and Pakistan carry an undeclared war in the Kargil region of Kashmir, after irregular troops supported by the Pakistani army occupy Indian positions on the control line or the fire line. India responds after intense struggles. The US exerts pressure on Pakistan to withdraw.
December 2001:
Armed people attack the building of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, killing nine people. India blames the Islamist groups Jaish-E-Mohammed and Lashkar-E-Taiba, based in Pakistan. The two countries reach the threshold of a fourth war.
November 2008:
Ten armed attackers targeted the main tourist attractions in Mumbai, including two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and the main train station, killing 166 people.
India suspends all dialogues with Pakistan, resuming them for a short time later, in a structured peace process.
January 2016:
Attacles disguised in soldiers take a base of Indian air forces next to the border with Pakistan, changing firearms with Indian forces that, supported by tanks and helicopters, fight for over 15 hours before regaining control over the complex.
All five attackers and at least two guards are killed in the attack.
India states that the attackers came from Pakistan, while the Pakistan authorities condemn the raid. Peace negotiations, resumed for a short time in 2015, are blocked again.
September 2016:
18 Indian soldiers are killed in an attack on a military base in Uri, in Indian Kashmir. India accuses Pakistan of attack and responds with “surgical strokes” over the control line on what it calls “terrorist launch ramps”.
Pakistan denies that any incursion would have taken place.
February 2019:
A bomb suicide kills 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir. India launches air attacks in Balakot, Pakistan.
Pakistan responds with its own air attacks and both sides breaks the other aircraft. The situation is relaxed as a result of international pressures.
August 2019:
India revokes the special status of Kashmir, eliminating a constitutional disposition that allowed the state of Jammu and Kashmir to adopt their own laws. Pakistan returns diplomatic relations and suspends trade.
April 2025:
26 men are killed after Islamic attackers target Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir. India accuses groups supported by Pakistan. Pakistan denies involvement and asks for a neutral investigation.
India suspends the Treaty on the 1960 Indic Waters, which regulates the division of water from the induced river and its tributaries, while Pakistan suspends all trade with India, including through third countries.
Both countries close the airspace to the airlines of the other part, and India revokes most of the visas issued to Pakistani citizens.
