Operation Sindoor

Timothy Birdnow

India and Pakistan are now at war.

India launched retaliatory missile strikes on Pakistan after a massacre of 26 Indian and Nepalese tourists in Kashmir. The retaliatory strike killed 31 Pakistanis and has led to the government of Pakistan vowing vengeance.

Pakistan claims to have taken out at least five Indian aircraft during the strike.

In the usual Islamic fashion the terrorists who murdered the tourists were masked so as to give Pakistan plausible deniability. Pakistan claims it had nothing to do with the attacks.

Perhaps not, but I am certain they did not shed many tears over them either. Actually I'm sure India did not go off half-cocked and start a war with Pakistan if they weren't sure it was them.

At any rate the Pakistani government's National Security Committee issued this statement:


There has never been any love lost between Pakistan and India. Once both were part of the British colony of India, when the subcontinent gained independence it was divided into two countries - India and Pakistan - and Pakistan was a divided nation, with East and West pakistan split by India. East Pakistan gained it's independence from Pakistan early on, becoming Bengladesh. (There were a few other small places that became independent too when India was created, like Bhutan and the now-defunct Sikkhim, but they were small and relatively unimportant.) Pakistan was created for the Muslims and India for the Hindus. The divorce was quite acrimonious; marched in huge columns east and south, Muslims norht and west, and enormous riots between the two sides broke out as the two columns passed each-other. Britain was the only thing that had kept their hatred of each-other in check over the years, and with Britain out the two competing religions almost fought a genocidal war. One of the sticking points was and remains Kashmir, a northern province.

Kashmir wasn't given to either India or Pakistan when the British left; it was left up to the ruling maharaja, a guy named Hari Singh,to choose which country his fiefdom would join. He chose India, and this led to an immediate civil war between the Muslims there and the Hindus in 1947. (By the way, the name Pakistan is an amalgamation of the name of five provinces - Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh & Baluchistan- so Pakistan understandably believes they are the rightful owners of Kashmir, as it's in their name.) There has been terrorism and war between Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir ever since.

And when India invented the atomic bomb the Pakistanis vowed to make their own, and they did with A.Q. Khan's program. Now both are nuclear armed. (Khan got much of his tech from the West through subtrefuge; India invented it all on their own.)

So two nuclear powers are now at war and this thing could escalate very quickly.

The Indian Defense Minister stated that the attacks carried out were aimed entirely at terrorist infrastructure and camps.

India and Pakistan have fought four wars since their independence, three over Kashmir and other Himalayan territories.

In 2001 Pakistani terrorists invaded India's parliament, shooting the MP's with machine guns and killing 6 people. Terrorist attacks against India are common. The inverse is not at all true.

(BTW is it any wonder Barack Hussein Obama loved what he calls "Puckistan"? What does that say about our former President.)

Given that Pakistan is full of terrorists, and given that they come out of the jihadist ideology (where don't Muslims fight with their neighbors? Wherever they hold a majority, or even a strong minority, they fight with their neighbors and launch terrorist attacks) who doubts for a minute Pakistan started this?

Maybe we should send Obama to mediate this, as he loves Pukistan and perhaps the Muslims there would listen to him?

At any rate this is looking tobe the big one there.

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