(Pakistan is trying to escalate the conflict while India is doing the opposite. They have every right to strike the terrorist training facilities after the recent attack. Seems like they hit 5 locations and Pakistan claims they only killed 20 people, hardly targeting population centers. And India waited for Pakistan to take action against LeT which is run by the ISI and CIA, but they did NOTHING so India took action which was within their rights to do. We can judge from Pakistan's behavior who is to blame for this destabilization campaign and who is in the right.)
from the NYT
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India said on Wednesday that it had struck Pakistan after gathering evidence “pointing towards the clear involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists” in last month’s attack on civilians in a tourist area in Kashmir. It said that its military actions had been “measured, responsible and designed to be nonescalatory in nature.” It added that it had targeted only “known terror camps.”
In its own statement on Wednesday, the Pakistani government called the Indian strikes “an unprovoked and blatant act of war” that had “violated Pakistan’s sovereignty.” Pakistani military officials said they had begun a “measured but forceful” response, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif claimed that the country’s forces had downed five Indian aircraft — a claim that could not be verified...
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