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India’s Military On High Alert, Stands Ready For “Possible Retaliatory Action” From Pakistan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s response to Tuesday’s dramatic escalation with nuclear armed rival India was to direct his armed forces and the public to \u201cremain prepared for all eventualities.\u201d <\/strong>This after Pakistani officials confirmed that Indian fighter jets dropped “four bombs” in its sovereign territory while noting the Indian attack was repulsed and while going back the aircraft “jettisoned their payload” \u2014 <\/em>implying the mission was cut short due to Pakistani defense efforts, according to the Times of India<\/a>. <\/em>“India has committed uncalled for aggression to which Pakistan shall respond at the time and place of its choosing,”<\/strong> Khan’s office said<\/a> soon after the brazen violation of Pakistan’s airspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere will be some form of escalation,\u201d <\/strong>Kamran Bokhari, an expert on Pakistani-Indian relations at the Center for Global Policy with the University of Ottawa told Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>. \u201cPakistan will have to strike back<\/strong> \u2014<\/em> I am not saying this will lead to an all out war, but I don\u2019t see that it\u2019s over.\u201d Indian Army, Navy and Air Force chiefs meanwhile praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his bold actions and underscored the military’s preparedness to deal with<\/a> “any possible retaliatory action” by Islamabad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pakistan and India are in the midst of a nuclear arms race. Image source: AFP\/Dawn<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The incident marks the most dangerous and significant escalation since 2001, when after a mass terror attack on government buildings in New Delhi, both countries moved ballistic missiles and troops to their border amidst heated rhetoric on who’s to blame for the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) bombings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday’s provocative cross border Indian jet raid was in retaliation for one of the deadliest terror attacks in the history of the long-running Kashmiri insurgency.\u00a0Earlier this month, a Muslim \u2018mujahidin\u2019 drove a car loaded with explosives into a bus packed with Indian paramilitary soldiers, killing more than 40 in what became known as the Pulwama attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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India’s Military On High Alert, Stands Ready For “Possible Retaliatory Action” From Pakistan Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s response to Tuesday’s dramatic escalation with nuclear armed rival India was to direct his armed forces and the public to \u201cremain prepared for all eventualities.\u201d This after Pakistani officials confirmed that Indian fighter jets dropped “four bombs” in its sovereign territory while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1746,422,18982,1745,14817,4318],"class_list":["post-44059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-imran-khan","tag-india","tag-kashmir","tag-pakistan","tag-times-of-india","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44060,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44059\/revisions\/44060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}