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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 11:49 AM Jan 2015

Four killed in fresh India-Pakistan border clashes

Source: AFP

Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire along their tense border on Saturday, killing four people including a teenage girl and forcing hundreds to flee their homes in the latest round of deadly clashes.

The violence came a day after New Delhi said a Pakistani fishing crew suspected of involvement in "illicit" activities blew up their boat while trying to evade capture at the hands of the Indian navy.

Tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours escalated Wednesday when an Indian border guard and two Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed during another exchange of fire.

The shelling intensified Saturday, necessitating "evacuation of hundreds of people" living in the border areas of Samba and Hiranagar, said Rajesh Kumar, a senior police official in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Read more: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/two-killed-fresh-india-pakistan-border-clashes-112041726.html#DIVmDx6

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Four killed in fresh India-Pakistan border clashes (Original Post) Bosonic Jan 2015 OP
Oy Recursion Jan 2015 #1
It won't be like before cosmicone Jan 2015 #2
India has returned pakistani land captured in wartime three times in the past samsingh Jan 2015 #4
Gee, what a shock. Rhinodawg Jan 2015 #7
This is where the next nuclear exchange will happen. Archae Jan 2015 #3
India is constantly attacked by pakistan samsingh Jan 2015 #5
Pakistan's nuclear capability is overblown cosmicone Jan 2015 #6
Where did the first nuclear exchange happen? JackRiddler Jan 2015 #8
Although it wasn't an exchange, the two bombs on Japan were used in war. Archae Jan 2015 #9

samsingh

(17,599 posts)
4. India has returned pakistani land captured in wartime three times in the past
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 12:46 PM
Jan 2015

yet Pakistan continues to shell the border and kill innocent villagers.

Archae

(46,328 posts)
3. This is where the next nuclear exchange will happen.
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 12:16 PM
Jan 2015

Both countries have atomic bombs, and they are constantly at war.

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
6. Pakistan's nuclear capability is overblown
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 02:04 PM
Jan 2015

India has soundly beaten Pakistan four times, one time dismembering Pakistan.

Archae

(46,328 posts)
9. Although it wasn't an exchange, the two bombs on Japan were used in war.
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 04:48 PM
Jan 2015

The next use of bombs in a war will be an exchange.

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