Overnight, the Indian air force launched an attack on what it described as a terrorist training camp inside Pakistan. According to India, a significant number of terrorists were killed. Pakistan said that no one was hurt, but it kept everyone including reporters about a mile away from the site, so there is no verification of the results of the attack. India says that the camp was being used by the terrorist group that launched last week's attack in Kashmir in which over 40 Indian troops and police were killed.
A strike of this sort is very unusual in the ongoing cold war between India and Pakistan. The obvious concern is what will happen if Pakistan decides that it has to strike back at the Indians. It would not take much for this to escalate into a full blown war between two nuclear-armed states. That would be a disaster for the entire world. Remember, a nuclear exchange in South Asia could bring on a nuclear winter for the globe. The results of something like that could be mass death around the world.
What can one say next? Have a nice day?
A strike of this sort is very unusual in the ongoing cold war between India and Pakistan. The obvious concern is what will happen if Pakistan decides that it has to strike back at the Indians. It would not take much for this to escalate into a full blown war between two nuclear-armed states. That would be a disaster for the entire world. Remember, a nuclear exchange in South Asia could bring on a nuclear winter for the globe. The results of something like that could be mass death around the world.
What can one say next? Have a nice day?
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