India/Pakistan Fighting

[Yazata]

X says that India has demanded that X shut down a whole list of accounts that India apparently considers subversive and pro-Pakistani. X opposes this move on free speech principles, but legally has to comply. So the accounts will no longer be visible in India but will continue to be visible everywhere else.

One of the banned accounts is one that I follow. It's got more than a million followers world-wide and is generally very accurate and unbiased.

I think that what landed them on the India "misinformation" ban list is the fact that they were posting not only Indian government claims, but also what the Pakistani government was claiming as well.

[Yazata]

Yesterday, most of the cross-border attacks were drone attacks with small explosive warheads. Today not only are they using increasing numbers of drones (hundreds), they have moved on to more potent ballistic and cruise missiles. Many of the targets now appear to be military bases.

It's still unclear whether the multiple reports yesterday of a large explosion near the Pakistani prime minister's residence is true, but there are reports today that he has been moved to a secure location.

What is confirmed is a significant cruise missile attack on Pakistan's Nur Khan airbase outside Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Several other Pakistani air bases have been struck as well.

The Pakistanis are firing short range battlefield ballistic missiles at Indian cities near the border, but India claims that the missiles have all been successfully intercepted (which may or may not be true). And perhaps in an attempt to answer the attacks on their capital, Pakistan fired a longer range ballistic missile at the major Indian city of Delhi, but India claims to have intercepted it over the Indian state of Haryana.

There are so many drones in use by both sides in Kashmir that the sky is filled with them. People are starting to panic. Heavy artillery shelling continues along the line-of-control and the sound of loud booms is constant.

Reliable news is increasingly hard to find since both sides have clamped down censorship.

Pakistan has temporarily closed their country's airspace to civilian air traffic.

What is reasonably certain so far is that neither side's regular army forces have crossed into the other side's territory. (Though Pakistan's radical Islamist terrorist proxies continue to try to cross into Indian Kashmir, so far without much success.)

[Yazata]

Fighting increased again earlier today, with both sides hitting increasingly important military bases with cruise and ballistic missiles. India has issued a NOTAM closing all air space west of Delhi from the ocean to Kashmir to civilian air traffic.

Pakistan has started making vague nuclear threats.

China has announced full support for Pakistan and say that if Pakistan's territorial integrity is threatened, China will go to war with India.

Then in a surprise announcement, the United States announced that after a long night of intense American mediation, both India and Pakistan agreed to a "full and immediate cease fire"!

The cease fire appeared to go into effect, but was quickly broken with attacks out of Pakistani controlled areas of Kashmir into Indian Kashmir.

India is saying that all terrorist attacks across the line of control will be considered Pakistani attacks. Pakistan shrugs and says that it's Kashmiri Muslim rebels, not Pakistan (despite the terrorists being Pakistani proxies based in Pakistan and armed by the Pakistani army).

[Yazata]

The Indian army has been given a "free hand to respond" to cease fire violations.

But that being said, things do appear to be quieting down.