India warns Pakistan of high price after more fighting in Kashmir

[Bosonic]

Source: The Globe and Mail

India warned Pakistan it would pay an “unaffordable price” if it persists with shelling and machine-gun fire across a disputed border in the Kashmir region, raising the stakes in the rivals’ worst fighting in more than a decade.

A total of nine Pakistani and eight Indian civilians have been killed since fighting erupted more than week ago along a 200-km (125-mile) stretch of border in the disputed, mostly Muslim region of Kashmir. Both of the nuclear-armed countries claim all of Kashmir’s Himalayan mountains and fertile valleys, a major focus of tension in South Asia.

India’s Defence Minister Arun Jaitley accused Pakistan of making unprovoked attacks on Indian-controlled Kashmir and threatened heavy retaliation. “If Pakistan persists with this adventurism then our forces will continue to fight,” Arun Jaitley told reporters at a news conference in New Delhi. “The cost of this adventurism will be unaffordable.”.

He did not give more details.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/india-warns-pakistan-of-high-price-after-more-fighting-in-kashmir/article21002011/

[gordianot]

1. Just proves when problems in the world get bad they can get worse.

Sarah Palin needs to say something stupid or get into another drunken brawl for comedy relief. It must be the full moon.

[PeoViejo]

2. When the Cat's away,the Mice will Play, as the old cliche goes.

There's so much going on right now, that another War is just background noise.

[cosmicone]

3. Pakistanis do this every fall

they send Pakistan trained terrorists in India under cover of artillery just before the mountain passes close for winter.

The only difference this time is that Narendra Modi is the prime minister and he won't put up with Pakistanis.

Pakistan is nearly bankrupt and cannot afford to fight a protracted war with India. If Indians attack, Pakistan will be on its knees begging for a deal in about 7 days.

(I know the Jihad caucus on DU will disagree and say "but but Pakistan has nukes". Pakistan had nukes in 1971 when India dismembered it and liberated Bangladesh.)

[truebrit71]

4. All this ruckus over a sweater??

*ducks*