But in Pakistan’s version, Indian jets were quickly rebuffed
INDIANS AND Pakistanis awoke on the morning of February 26th to alarming, if contradictory, news. Indian fighter jets bombed an alleged terrorist training camp in Pakistan overnight, officials in Delhi said, in retaliation for a suicide attack that killed some 40 soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago.
The sharp discrepancy over details of the airstrike is not unprecedented. In 2016, following a JeM attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir that left 19 soldiers dead, India claimed to have mounted a series of cross-border commando raids in response, killing numerous jihadists. Pakistan simply denied that it had detected any military action. The wide gap between the two countries’ versions suggests a tacit understanding that neither of the rival nuclear powers wishes to push things too far.
But this is not just a game. India’s patience with Pakistani meddling really has worn dangerously thin. Repeatedly over the past three decades, Pakistan-based jihadist groups have struck targets in India, and repeatedly Pakistan has done little more to punish them than give a light slap on the wrist.
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