The Daily Telegraph – May 7, 2025
India and Pakistan exchanged fire across their shared border on Wednesday in a major escalation, bringing the two nuclear-armed neighbours to the brink of war.
At least 15 people were killed as the countries exchanged air strikes and heavy shelling across the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border dividing Kashmir.
Earlier, India said its “Operation Sindoor” struck nine “terrorist infrastructure” sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, some of them linked to an attack by Islamist militants on Hindu tourists that killed 26 people in Indian Kashmir last month.
Islamabad vowed to respond to what it called a “cowardly and shameful” attack launched by planes within Indian airspace “at a time and place of its choosing.”
“Let me say it unequivocally: Pakistan will respond to this at a time and place of its own choosing. This heinous provocation will not go unanswered,” said a spokesman for the military.
Islamabad said six locations in both Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir were targeted, and that none of them were militant camps. At least 26 civilians were killed and 46 injured, a Pakistan military spokesperson said.
Pakistan said Indian missiles hit three sites and a military spokesperson told Reuters five Indian aircraft had been shot down, a claim not confirmed by India.
The five aircraft ‘downed’ by Pakistan
According to Pakistani officials, the downed aircraft included three French-made Rafale fighters, one Russian-built Su-30 and a MiG-29.
India has not yet commented on the Pakistani claims. If confirmed, the loss of five jets would mark the Indian Air Force’s most significant combat losses in decades and would raise the risk of wider conflict.
The Rafale jet is a recent addition to India’s Air Force, part of a broader effort to modernise its military and reduce reliance on ageing Russian equipment.
Prior to the latest hostilities, the Indian Air Force operated 36 Rafales.
Just last week, New Delhi signed a deal with France’s Dassault Aviation to purchase 26 more Rafales for the Indian Navy, in a deal worth 630 billion rupees (£5.9 billion)
“Just last week, New Delhi signed a deal with France’s Dassault Aviation to purchase 26 more Rafales for the Indian Navy, in a deal worth 630 billion rupees (£5.9 billion)…”
Meanwhile literally millions of Indian people exist in abject poverty on the streets of every Indian city and corpses float down the River Ganges.
God alone knows how many children disappear to be raped and murdered by the scum at the top!
I hope it ends with India taking back Pakistan: Partition was a simplistic solution that could not last, because Islam, like the Jews, wants the world, not a nice little homeland and a pat on the head
Jeesh,I’d like to have a look at the state of their nooks..probably mounted on some ancient padmini covered in rust and shit… and full of giant insects..
I was in India years ago, contrary to Western propaganda, about tek giants and coders it exists in a state of primitive racist prejudiced anarchy where human life is valued just a tad greater than worthless and relies primarily on the goodness of human nature, which as you can imagine is a tentative situation.. that is continually unraveling..
The biggest critics of India are Indians themselves… who hate nothing more than Pakistanis simply because they exist.. and who equally both hate Bangladeshis.
I’m sure it was a beautiful place once..
NB: Like the stolen state, India and Pakistan which aren’t even the names of these countries, are casualties of Anglo zionist imperialism. but mainly zion..who grow and manufacture their drugs there..
Nowadays of course the anglo zionist countries themselves are victims of anglo zionist imperialism too…because anglo zionists don’t view their own proles any different to the cooleys they used to enslave..
and mix and match them via flying entire towns and villages from the subcontinent into Heathrow for rehousing..using rubber ring hehe ‘illegal’ ethnic importation and useless Mi6 created political punch and judy shows to distract them from the bitter truth..
which they of course find highly effective.
One day a Hindu will write the Great Indian Novel.
It will be titled “1000 Years Together”
India should have wiped Pakistan off the map before they acquired nuclear weapons.
all this was caused by one man Lord Mountbatten
in separating two great people the hindus and moslems
he was under zionist control like all our royals
the fool who was hated for his demands small boys be brought to him for sex
one evil twisted bastard
the IRA bombed him for his child rapes
not his politics
chesterton–it is unusual for you to go into the very stale mode of blaming “Anglo-Zionist Imperialism” for anything wogs do e.g. Islamic expansion