Military clashes have been reported between India and Pakistan after a deadly terrorist attack earlier this week in the northern Indian region of Kashmir. “Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged gunfire for a second straight day on Saturday,” Reuters reported.
Border skirmishes between the two nuclear-armed nations were reported after 26 Indians were massacred on Tuesday by a Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist group. “The Indian Army said its troops responded to ‘unprovoked’ small arms fire from multiple Pakistan Army posts that started around midnight on Friday along the 740-km (460-mile) de facto border separating the Indian and Pakistani areas of Kashmir,” the news agency added.
Indian news channel NDTV reported the details of ongoing border clashes:
Indian Army reported the firing from multiple posts from across the Line of Control, the de facto boundary separating Indian and Pakistani armies in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Officials said Indian troops retaliated appropriately to the Pakistani firing.No casualties were reported in the exchange of fire, the Indian Army said in a statement.”On the night of 25th-26th of April 2025, unprovoked Small Firing was carried out by multiple Pakistan Army post all across the Line of Control in Kashmir. Indian troops responded appropriately with small arms. No casualties reported,” the statement read.Speculative firing was reported yesterday as well, with military sources suggesting that Pakistani troops were trying to check the alertness of Indian soldiers amid calls within India to take decisive action against terror hotspots across the LoC.
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) took responsibility for the attack in which Islamic terrorists separated Hindus and Christians for massacre. “The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, has claimed responsibility for the attack,” Indian newspaper Deccan Herald reported Thursday.
Lashkar-e-Taiba and other Pakistan-backed Kashmiri jihadist groups have ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Israel’s Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, on Thursday, disclosed that Hamas operatives had toured Pakistan-held Kashmir and met with local terrorist outfits ahead of Tuesday’s attack, Indian newspapers report.
These terrorist groups have been trying to stage attacks inspired by Hamas’s October 7 massacre — filming their terrorist operations, and killing captive Indian soldiers.
Kashmir’s Muslims have been organizing pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah demonstrations since October 7, 2023. Demonstrations, which often take place after the weekly Friday prayers, call for ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel.’
The Indian news outlet Wire in March described some of these protests:
During one such protest in Chainabal in the Pattan area of Baramulla district, some demonstrators were seen waving Hezbollah flags, while others carried placards and banners that featured the photos of Lebanese cleric and Hezbollah commander Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated last year.Other protesters held placards featuring Yahya Sinwar, the Palestinian politician and former chairman of Hamas who was killed in a clash with Israeli forces in October last year.The protesters shouted slogans such as “murdabad, murdabad, Israel murdabad” (Down with Israel), “murdabad murdabad, Amrika Murdabad” (Down with America) and “Ae zalimo, ae qafiro, bait-ul-muqadas chood do” (Oh tyrants, oh infidels, leave Jerusalem). (…)After the culmination of Friday prayers, the protesters gathered on the Sonpah-Beerwah road, where they raised slogans against Israel and America and in favour of Palestine.
Taking a leaf out of Hamas’ handbook, these terror groups have declared jihad against ‘infidel’ India in a bid to create an Islamic state in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
A decades-long deadly jihad campaign has forced Kashmir’s native Hindu and Sikh population to flee the province, making it 90 percent Muslim. Nearly half a million Hindus from Kashmir are living as internally displaced refugees inside India. Muslim extremists desecrated and destroyed Hindu temples across Kashmir, erasing the signs of Hinduism from its ancient land.
Following Tuesday’s attack, India and Pakistan announced a series of tit-for-tat measures: downgrading diplomatic ties, cancelling visas, and suspending bilateral treaties.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to pursue terrorists and their backers “to the ends of the Earth,” a veiled threat to strike terrorist training camps located across the border in Pakistan.
Prime Minister Modi’s government plans to divert the river water flowing into Pakistan. “India will ensure that no water from the Indus River is wasted or allowed to flow into Pakistan, the government said on Friday,” the weekly magazine India Today reported. “It announced plans on three fronts — short-term, mid-term, and long-term — to prevent the river’s water from reaching Pakistan.”
Pakistan sees the move as an act of war. “Any attempt to stop or divert the flow of water belonging to Pakistan as per the Indus waters treaty … will be considered as an act of war and responded [to] with full force across the complete spectrum of national power,” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, declared.
The country is heavily dependent on water flowing from Indian rivers. “More than 80% of Pakistan’s agriculture and around a third of its hydropower depend on the Indus basin’s water,” BBC noted.
Since the British rule ended in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir.
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