India-Pakistan conflict

Palestinian Terror Reverberates in New Delhi

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 10, 2003, 2:18 AM (GMT+02:00)

Fifteen Israelis died, more than 90 were injured, in two murderous Palestinian suicide attacks Tuesday night, September 9. The first struck down a crowd of soldiers waiting outside the Tsrifin military base for transportation home. It occurred just as Israeli and Indian prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...

Pakistan Downs Indian Spy Drone Made in Israel

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 8, 2002, 5:22 PM (GMT+02:00)

According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources in New Delhi, a group of Israel electronic warfare experts is helping the Indian army set up and operate six early warning stations along the 750-km Line of Control dividing disputed Kashmir, for picking up movements of military forces, armed men and explosives on ...

Pakistan Downs Indian Spy Drone Made in Israel

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 8, 2002, 10:49 AM (GMT+02:00)

According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources in New Delhi, a group of Israel electronic warfare experts is helping the Indian army set up and operate six early warning stations along the 750-km Line of Control dividing disputed Kashmir, for picking up movements of military forces, armed men and explosives on ...

New US "hot pre-emption" Strategy Applies Equally to Indian-Pakistani, Israel-Palestinian Conflicts

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 3, 2002, 5:20 PM (GMT+02:00)

In a lengthy speech to West Point graduates Sunday, President George W. Bush articulated a shift in his war on global terror. The familiar threats to "rout them out" or "find them wherever they are" were replaced for the first time by a warning to Americans "to be ready for ...

In Full-Scale War, India and Pakistan Plan Deep Reciprocal Invasions

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 1, 2002, 5:18 PM (GMT+02:00)

Two of the three wars fought by India and Pakistan since independence were over divided Kashmir. The fourth conflict looming ever closer focuses once again on the perennial dispute between the two nuclear neighbors. Yet debkafile's military and intelligence sources report that, if the match is lit, the ...

Pakistani Missile Test Seen as War Provocation

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 25, 2002, 5:16 PM (GMT+02:00)

Pakistan's medium-range missile test on Saturday, May 25, was conducted the day after Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee went off for a weekend rest in the hills, hinting he might give Pakistan another two months to crack down on Muslim militants stirring the flames in Kashmir. The nuclear-capable ...

Pakistan and India Gain War Momentum

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 8, 2002, 7:48 PM (GMT+02:00)

Notwithstanding intense efforts by a group of nine of the most powerful US senators and British premier Tony Blair, who have been crisscrossing Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Afghanistan, Indian-Pakistan war tensions remain high. Not a day goes by without skirmishes, firefights and casualties on both sides and mutual ...

Kashmir Dispute Boiling Over

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 21, 2001, 9:58 AM (GMT+02:00)

Escalating border clashes, incursions and a massive Indian army buildup on the Line of Control in the disputed province of Kashmir in the last 48 hours are some of the most threatening side-effects of the Afghan war, bringing two nuclear powers close to flashpoint. Early Wednesday morning, November 21, a ...

US Leans Hard on Pakistan

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 13, 2001, 8:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell put in crisis calls to both Pakistani and Indian leaders Saturday, December 30, urging the two nuclear powers to de-escalate the fast mounting war tension between them. But, as debkafile's diplomatic sources note, the language and tone employed ...