Air strikes and a suicide bombing against Indian troops have reignited a decades-old battle between South Asia’s nuclear nations. Here’s what you need to know
including the suspected organizer of the attack, in a 17-hour battle. Four Indian soldiers, a policeman and a civilian are also killed.India launches air strikes in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir to target what it says is a JeM training camp.India and Pakistan each launch air strikes and at least one Indian jet is shot down, though the countries offer different accounts of what happened.
One of the leading Kashmiri insurgent groups, Jaish-e-Mohammad was founded in 1999 by a Muslim cleric, Masood Azhar. JeM is officially outlawed in Pakistan, but India accuses Pakistan of allowing it to operate freely anyway under other names. Though JeM’s goal is to have Kashmir under Pakistani authority, it has also attacked Pakistan’s military, and in 2003 it was suspected of trying to assassinate then-president Pervez Musharraf.
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