India-Pakistan tensions rise following border clashes
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the “naked aggression of Indian forces” on September 29 after two Pakistani soldiers were killed in clashes in the disputed territory of Kashmir.
- Pakistani protesters burn a representation of an Indian flag in Peshawar, Pakistan, to condemn the killings of Pakistani soldiers, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Tension along the India-Pakistan border has grown sharply since a deadly Sept. 18 attack on an Indian military base in Kashmir. New Delhi blamed the attack on militants belonging to the outlawed group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has its headquarters in Pakistan. Islamabad denies that. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
- Pakistani protesters burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Karachi, Pakistan, to condemn the killings of Pakistani soldiers, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Tension along the India-Pakistan border has grown sharply since a deadly Sept. 18 attack on an Indian military base in Kashmir. New Delhi blamed the attack on militants belonging to the outlawed group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has its headquarters in Pakistan. Islamabad denies that. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
- Women light oil lamps to pay tribute to Pakistani soldiers allegedly killed by Indian forces, in Karachi, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Tension along the India-Pakistan border has grown sharply since a deadly Sept. 18 attack on an Indian military base in Kashmir. New Delhi blamed the attack on militants belonging to the outlawed group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has its headquarters in Pakistan. Islamabad denies that. Banner reads “we pay tribute to Pakistan army.” (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
- Pakistani protesters burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Karachi, Pakistan, to condemn the killings of Pakistani soldiers, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Tension along the India-Pakistan border has grown sharply since a deadly Sept. 18 attack on an Indian military base in Kashmir. New Delhi blamed the attack on militants belonging to the outlawed group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has its headquarters in Pakistan. Islamabad denies that. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
- Indian tourists who came to watch the ‘daily retreat’ ceremony are turned away by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at the Indian side of the India-Pakistan Wagah border post, about 35 kms from Amritsar on September 30, 2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Narinder Nanu)
- Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel patrol at the India-Pakistan border village Daoke, about 40 kms from Amritsar on September 30, 2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Narinder Nanu)
- Surjit Kaur sits outside her home at the India-Pakistan border village Daoke, about 40 kms from Amritsar on September 30, 2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Narinder Nanu)
- An elderly man looks on as he sits outside a house near the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh,southwest of Jammu,on September 30,2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Tauseef Mustafa)
- Indian migrant families rest in a Bana Singh stadium at R.S.Pora Jammu on September 30, 2016, as villagers living close to the border with Pakistan leave their homes for security reasons. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Tauseef Mustafa)
- An elderly man rests outside a house near the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh,southwest of Jammu,on September 30,2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Tauseef Mustafa)
- Elderly Indian villager, Teji Kaur takes a rest on a bed at the border village Dauke, about 40 kms from Amritsar on September 29, 2016, after the Punjab state government issued a warning to villagers to evacuate from a 10 km radius from the India-Pakistan border. Indian commandos carried out a series of lightning strikes September 29 along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir, provoking furious charges of “naked aggression” from its nuclear-armed neighbour. / (AFP Photo/Narinder Nanu)
- In this Sept. 24, 2016 file photo, an Indian Border Security Force soldier looks at the Pakistan side of the border through a binocular at Ranbir Singh Pura, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Jammu, India. In New Delhi, they say that highly trained Indian soldiers slipped across the de facto border and into Pakistani-controlled Kashmir in a daring nighttime raid, killing anti-India militants preparing to launch attacks. In Islamabad, they say that only one Indian soldier made it across the border, and he was captured, with Pakistani forces easily driving back the other Indians, who retreated as soon as they encountered resistance. The dueling tales of courageous forces serve politics on both sides of the border, with powerful forces in each country able to proclaim their courage in the face of aggression. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)
- Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel patrol on horses at the India-Pakistan border village Daoke, about 40 kms from Amritsar on September 30, 2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Narinder Nanu)
- Women walk near the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh,southwest of Jammu,on September 30,2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Tauseef Mustafa)
- A villager, Kashmir Kaur prepares chapati (flat bread) at the India-Pakistan border village Daoke, about 40 kms from Amritsar on September 30, 2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Narinder Nanu)
- An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier looks on fromn his post along the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh, southwest of Jammu on September 30, 2016. India evacuated thousands of people living near the border with Pakistan on September 30, a day after carrying out strikes along the de-facto frontier in disputed Kashmir that have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. / (AFP Photo/Tauseef Mustafa)