Nuclear-Armed India and Pakistan Come to Blows

Just a Bit of Shooting Between Nuclear-Armed Neighbors, That’s All

India launched early morning missile strikes on both Pakistan and Pakistan-administered parts of Kashmir this morning, while the Pakistan government claimed it had shot down five Indian Air Force jets in “self-defense.” Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif described the attack as “an act of war” and ordered his country’s military to enact “self-defense” with “corresponding actions.”

On April 22, Islamists massacred 26 Indian tourists in Pahalgam, a town in Kashmir — the largest number of civilian casualties in a terrorist attack in India since the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai.