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<ul><li>Five unidentified militants have been killed in an encounter in <keyword id="17605" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jammu-and-kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</keyword>'s <keyword id="659687" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shopian-district">Shopian district</keyword>, according to the state police.</li><li>The encounter between security forces and militants broke out on June 7 morning.</li><li>The encounter ensued after security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Reban area of Shopian.</li></ul>Five unidentified militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday June 7, according to the state police. The encounter broke out today morning between the security forces and militants in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday morning. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Reban area of Shopian in South Kashmir this morning after receiving specific information about the presence of militants in the area, a police official said. He said the search operation turned into an encounter after militants fired upon a search party of the forces, who retaliated. According to details, security forces had a specific input about the presence of terrorists in that area. As the security forces zeroed in on the spot where the terrorists were hiding, they came under fire that triggered the encounter. Kashmir Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar told IANS that the identity of the killed terrorists is being established. This year a total of 75 militants have been killed so far in the Kashmir Valley, as per the police records. (With IANS and PTI inputs) SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/with-233-fresh-cases-bihars-covid-19-tally-rises-to-4831/articleshow/76238545.cms">Bihar registers 233 new coronavirus cases with its overall tally rising to 4.831</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/noida-21-new-covid-19-cases-tally-591/articleshow/76238339.cms">Noida’s total coronavirus cases hit 591 with 21 new cases detected in the past 24 hours</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/342-new-coronavirus-cases-in-pune-district-six-deaths/articleshow/76239001.cms">Six more people die of coronavirus in Pune with 342 fresh cases</a>

Five terrorists killed in Jammu and Kashmir amid encounter in Shopian district

Four suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists were killed and two policemen were injured in a gunbattle on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway after a truck carrying a group of freshly infiltrated militants was intercepted by security forces on the outskirts of Jammu city on Thursday, top police officials said. The terrorists had come to execute a "big plan" which has now been foiled, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Jammu, Mukesh Singh, said. In Srinagar, IGP, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the four terrorists were on their way to the Kashmir valley to disturb the District Development Council (DDC) polls scheduled later this month, as Pakistan has been trying to cause trouble in the political process. Giving details of the encounter, IGP Singh told a press conference in Jammu that during checking a truck was stopped at Ban toll plaza in Nagrota area at 5 am but the driver fled leaving behind the vehicle. CRPF and police personnel moved to search the vehicle and came under fire of the terrorists hiding in the truck.They retaliated resulting in an encounter. Other forces also joined resulting in a fierce gunbattle in which terrorists fired grenades and arms, he said. In the three-hour-long gunbattle, four terrorists were killed and two policemen were injured, he said, adding the policemen were out of danger. A huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosive material was recovered including 11 AK rifles, 3 pistols, 29 grenades and 6 UBGL grenades, he said. As per weapon recovery and past instances, it appears that they belong to JeM, he added. Speaking on the sidelines of a function in Srinagar, IGP Kumar said, "For the last few days, Pakistan has increased attempts to infiltrate militants into this side and to disturb the elections for which the process is on. In this context, Jammu Police and security forces have done a good job by neutralising four Pakistanis (militants). Their (militants') aim was to come to Kashmir to disturb the election process". He said there were apprehensions about militants targeting the elections, but the security forces were fully prepared to deal with the situation. "Whether there is an election or August 15 or January 26 or even a VIP visit, apprehensions are always there, but we are fully prepared... We are providing security to the candidates and they have started going to the field for campaigning from yesterday and there is nothing to fear," he said. Kumar, however, said providing security to each candidate contesting the polls, which begin on November 28, was difficult. "Providing security to each candidate is difficult. We are providing them collective security and they are being put up in secure areas. Whenever any candidate goes out for campaigning, we provide a double escort with him and secure the area for him to campaign," he said when pointed out that the candidates were alleging that they had not been provided security. DDC polls will be held from November 28 to December 22. Results will be declared on December 22. These polls will be the first major political activity in <keyword id="17605" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jammu-and-kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</keyword> since August 5 last year, when the Centre revoked the special status of the erstwhile state under Article 370 of the Constitution and split it into two Union territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/wipro-ceo-delaportes-new-plan-could-allow-company-to-catch-up-to-to-tcs-infosys-hcl-tech-and-others/articleshow/79299467.cms">Wipro CEO Delaporte’s new plan could give the Indian IT services giant the edge it needs to catch up to its peers, according to analysts</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/spicejet-shares-gain-over-15-after-american-air-regulator-gives-boeings-737-max-clearance/articleshow/79299146.cms">SpiceJet shares gain over 15% after FAA Boeing’s 737 Max clearance — DGCA says will take some time before making a decision</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/zomato-is-being-pulled-apart-in-a-polarised-india-for-pushing-advertising-money-to-backing-a-partisan-news-outfit/articleshow/79296969.cms">Zomato is being pulled apart in a polarised India⁠ for pushing advertising money to back a partisan news outfit</a>

Four suspected Jaish terrorists killed in encounter on their way execute a 'big plan', say J&K police officials

<ul><li>One army officer and four soldiers among killed. </li><li>A gunfight erupted facing off security personnel and up to three militants. </li><li>The overnight encounter took place 10 kilometres from site of <keyword id="43212" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pulwama">Pulwama</keyword> attack.</li></ul>Less than 5 days after one of the deadliest militant attacks in Kashmir, an overnight encounter between Indian security forces and three militants in Pulwama, Kashmir has reportedly killed at least four army personnel. Seven people, including an Indian Army major and two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, were reportedly killed in a gunfight in <keyword id="17605" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jammu-and-kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</keyword>'s Pulwama district. Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said: "One of the two slain JeM terrorists was a top commander and belonged to Pakistan." According to an NDTV <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/4-armymen-killed-in-overnight-encounter-in-pulwama-in-jammu-and-kashmir-1995055?pfrom=home-topscroll">report</a>, one army officer and three soldiers were killed during the encounter when terrorists opened fire on Indian security forces in Pulwama. On Sunday night, a gunfight erupted facing off security personnel from the Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and militants, after the former received a tip off that militants from Jaish-e-Muhammad were hiding there, IANS reported. “As the cordon was tightened, the holed-up militants fired triggering the gunfight," IANS reported citing police sources. As of Monday morning, a search operation was still underway at the site some 10 kilometres away from the spot where last week an SUV packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying CRPF personnel, killing at least 45 Indian security personnel, in one of the worst militant attacks in the valley. With IANS See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/pulwama-attack-on-crpf-in-kashmir-condemned-by-pm-modi/articleshow/67997003.cms">India vows an ‘unforgettable lesson’ for the terrorists who killed 42 troopers</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/modi-on-pulwama-attack-indias-pakistan-policy/articleshow/68005611.cms">Indian government is raging at Pakistan again—here's a look at its policy so far</a>

Four soldiers killed in Pulwama during encounter between Indian security forces and militants: Report

<ul><li>Three major films – <keyword id="198679" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Haider">Haider</keyword>, Fanaa and Mission Kashmir – offer a more nuanced look at the most militarised zone in the world than Indian history books. </li><li>the New Delhi board-designed syllabus of the Indian Council of School Examinations did not mention the special status of the state of <a href="https://www.scmp.com/topics/kashmir" class="link-text">Jammu and Kashmir</a>, the only Muslim-majority state in <a href="https://www.scmp.com/topics/india" class="link-text">India</a></li></ul> In school, the New Delhi board-designed syllabus of the Indian Council of School Examinations did not mention the special status of the state of <a href="https://www.scmp.com/topics/kashmir" class="link-text">Jammu and Kashmir</a>, the only Muslim-majority state in <a href="https://www.scmp.com/topics/india" class="link-text">India</a>.There are separate Indian state boards as well. I studied under a central board. We did not learn about the circumstances under which the state joined the Indian Union, nor that Kashmir is the most militarised zone in the world in terms of the number of armed forces personnel per square km of territory. Through my school years in the 1990s, there were news stories from the state about blasts and killings and terrorists, seemingly always about violence. Did they delve into the background of the anger? I don’t know because I did not go beyond the headlines. There was a sameness and one-sidedness to them – invariably images of fire and guns and empty streets – that never invoked interest. When the television news business arrived in a big way in India, this impression was amplified – Hollywood action movie-style visuals of gunfire and explosions and people running for cover, or reporters reporting amid the silence of empty streets patrolled by army men with enormous guns strapped to their bodies. Bombast with no context. This is unsurprising, because journalists’ access to the Valley is mediated through the army, making them structurally dependent on the armed forces and predisposing them to be favourable to their perspective. When <a href="https://www.scmp.com/topics/narendra-modi" class="link-text">Narendra Modi</a> ran for prime minister in 2014, his Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto promised that <keyword id="405091" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Article-370">Article 370</keyword>, which spelt out the special conditions under which the province joined the Indian Union at the time of Independence, would be removed. For a populace that was, like me, mostly unaware of its content, it was easy to latch on to simplified nuggets such as the fact that Kashmir does not allow land to be sold to Indians from other states. It sounds like a concession made to a Muslim-majority state but this land restriction exists in several states in India, and is important to prevent heedless development in ecologically sensitive areas. Strange as it may sound, it is the <a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2184614/triumph-modi-propaganda-bollywood" class="link-text">Hindi film industry</a> that has taught me the little I understand about the anger in Kashmir, about the “special” powers of the armed forces stationed there and the “special” consequences they inflicted. Three Bollywood films in particular have left an impact – Haider (2014), Fanaa(2006) and Mission Kashmir (2000). There have been several indie films, extremely well-regarded, but I choose to focus on the big-budget, big star projects of the film industry because these arguably had the widest release and reach. Haider is a reworking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set in the “rotten state” of Kashmir in place of Denmark. The setting is much more central to the drama here than it is in Hamlet where the rottenness of Denmark was expressed only in the suspicious death of the king. Here, politics is central to Haider’s father’s disappearance from Kashmir. We never know for certain if he is alive or dead, and this, as we see in the film, is the situation that many Kashmiri families find themselves in. <h3 style="margin-bottom: 1.42857rem; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 300; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.71429rem; line-height: 2.35714rem; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; display: inherit;"> </h3>The evocative term half-widow has arisen from this waiting without end – this is the status of Haider’s mother and many other wives who don’t know what has become of their husbands. In the uncertainty about his father (and the many fathers and brothers and sons who have been taken into custody by the forces in Kashmir and never returned), Haider (and Kashmir) is going mad. Gravediggers sing songs, they are so inured to death. Citizens hesitate to enter their own homes without a pat-down security check, they are so conditioned to being checked. Mothers beg that their sons are sent away from them because they are so afraid of losing them to the insurgency or to the limitless powers of the Indian army. Most of all, the film articulates the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that the Indian government has imposed on the Valley, how terrifying it is when men with guns have boundless power and no one to question them. Rapes and disappearances ensue, and there is no need to answer what happened because Afspa gives you “special powers”. “Do we exist or do we not”, the film asks in a haunting choral crescendo reminding us of that original line in Hamlet, “to be or not to be”. In Fanaa (2006), a blind Kashmiri woman and a terrorist fall in love with each other during India’s Independence Day celebrations in Delhi. He is there to carry out a blast and she to dance at the national celebration: classical opposites, the nationalist and the revolutionary. After the blast, the terrorist disappears because he comes to the realisation that he would put the woman in danger because of his work. The nationalist’s blindness means she cannot locate him. Years later, fate returns him to her doorstep in Kashmir and the two reconcile briefly before she hands him over to the Indian national forces. Fanaa is nowhere near as compelling or thought-provoking as Haider, it is simply a star-crossed romance set in Kashmir. But it ends on a pointedly ambiguous note. When the couple’s son asks the mother why his father was a terrorist, she replies that he did what he thought was right. The film clearly argues that the terrorist is misguided by malevolent forces yet it refrains from making a moral call on the terrorist’s actions. Mission Kashmir (2000) is about a powerful policeman whose son dies when militants forbid doctors from treating the child. In an episode of poetic justice, the policeman kills a boy’s family in an encounter and adopts the traumatised boy. This encounter is likely carried out with the vast powers granted to Indian forces under the Afspa, certainly no questions are asked of the policeman after the encounter. But the man himself is hollowed by remorse, especially at the sight of the boy who lived. He becomes a terrorist, determined to avenge his family’s gruesome end. That classic divide is set up again, terrorist against dutiful nationalist in a land where loyalties are sharply divided. Eventually, the terrorist comes around to the Indian nation’s view, that Islamist groups are provoking young men like him to divide India. Like Haider, Mission Kashmir questions the actions of Indian forces in Kashmir, though the conclusions the two films come to are different. The policeman’s remorse suggests that the Indian state has a lot to think about and apologise for, that the unchecked power that it has granted its forces leads to <a href="https://www.scmp.com/thisweekinasia/topics/human-rights" class="link-text">human rights</a> violation that feeds the insurgency in the Valley. Haider on the other indicts the Indian state for unleashing this unapologetic, shameless military strength on the Valley. Incidentally, Mission Kashmir is made by a director who is from Kashmir himself. Haider, similarly, is written by Basharat Peer who is also a Kashmiri and has written a highly-acclaimed book on Kashmir called Curfewed Night. Both films are informed by a lived perspective of Kashmir. On August 8, 2019, when Prime Minister Modi addressed Indian citizens on Kashmir, he mentioned the prospects for films. “I urge the Hindi, Telugu and Tamil film industry to come to J&amp;K for shooting their projects,” said Modi. The Hindi film industry has long indicated that Kashmir has a special place by marketing movies filmed in the Valley, naming films using Kashmir in the title and using iconography identified as Kashmiri like the houseboat and the chinar leaf. No other Indian state has been marked as “special” like this by the Hindi film industry. There are films named after big cities like Kolkata and Mumbai and Delhi, but nothing after an entire cultural identity. Until Mission Kashmir, however, these films only did lip service to Kashmir, promoting a tourist’s view of the state, a natural “paradise” where hero and heroine fell in love. These films were not rooted in Kashmir, disengaged from its problems. Mission Kashmirnaturally is a product of its times, born out of a decade-plus of the insurgency that flared in the Valley in the late 1980s. Thereafter, as the unrest never subsided, there have been several films which offer an insider’s view of Kashmir. <h3 style="margin-bottom: 1.42857rem; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 300; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.71429rem; line-height: 2.35714rem; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; display: inherit;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3022046/indias-kashmir-move-attempt-shift-its-muslim-demographic" class="link-text">India’s Kashmir move: an attempt to shift its Muslim demographic? </a></h3>I’ll end with one of the opening sequences of Haider, where his (Hamlet’s) mother, a schoolteacher, is teaching the children of her class the meaning of home. “It is brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers. It is unselfish acts and kindly sharing and showing your loved ones you are always caring.” It is an obvious metaphor for the Indian nation and its fraught relationship with Kashmir, the parents and the estranged child. The filial bond is often invoked for India and <a href="https://www.scmp.com/topics/pakistan" class="link-text">Pakistan</a>– brothers separated in a bloodied moment.But there is also another metaphor here: the Indian state teaching us the history of our “home”, and our duties as citizens and how we should live like brothers and sisters at home, “unselfish acts and kindly sharing”. It brings me back to where I started, what we are taught about our home and what we are not. Every nation controls its citizenry through education and so does India. We never learned the conditions in which Kashmir joined the Indian Union, and the circumstances we created to keep it at any cost. Perhaps it is not so strange then that I learned what little I did about Kashmir from our biggest film industry. For all its commercial inclinations, its lessons feel less biased than that of the Indian state’s.

Bollywood teaches more about Kashmir than India’s schools

<ul><li>White House asks India and Pakistan to de-escalate military action. </li><li>Potential risks of further military action ‘unacceptably high’, White House says. </li><li>US, Britain, and France ask the United Nations to blacklist Masood Azhar and the Jaish-e-Mohammad. </li><li>Ceasefire violations continue along the <keyword id="44759" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Line-of-Control">Line of Control</keyword> in <keyword id="6354495" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="kashmir">Kashmir</keyword>.</li></ul>India and Pakistan continue to exchange fire along the Line of Control in Kashmir, even as international pressure has increased on both sides to tone down the military standoff. “We urge both sides to take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation, including through direct communication. Further military activity will exacerbate the situation,” the White House spokesperson said. International pressure on both countries to exercise restraint and focus efforts to de-escalating the situation <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/other-countries-advise-restraint-to-india-and-pakistan/cid/1685841">continued</a> to pour in -- the UK, the US, China, and the European Union -- have all issued statements calling for a measured approach in the wake of the Wednesday air battle between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The US, along with Britain and France have also <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/britain-france-us-ask-un-security-council-to-impose-sanctions-on-jem-chief-masood-azhar/story-vQmGAk5c3xhOWUDedhaNgP.html">urged</a> the <keyword id="55859" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="UN-Security-Council">UN Security Council</keyword> to blacklist Masood Azhar, who heads <keyword id="119193" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jaish-e-Mohammed">Jaish-e-Mohammed</keyword> calling for international sanctions against him that would impose a travel ban and freeze his assets. “Cross-border terrorism, such as the recent attack on India’s CRPF on February 14, poses a grave threat to the security of the region. We reiterate our call for Pakistan to abide by its United Nations Security Council commitments to deny terrorists safe haven and block their access to funds,” a State Department spokesperson said. Earlier on Wednesday, China said that it believes that Pakistan has “always been opposed” to terrorism and that both India and Pakistan should exercise restraint and avoid escalation of the situation, according to news agencies. However, on Thursday morning, a ceasefire violation was reported in the Poonch district along the Line of Control, ANI reported. India is also <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/india-kashmir-border/india-builds-bunkers-to-protect-families-along-pakistan-border-idINKCN1QG20K?_ga=2.171069984.1477805050.1551274877-1064909316.1551274874">reportedly</a> building bunkers in the villages along the Line of Control - the de facto border with Pakistan -- to protect locals from fleeing in case of heavy shelling, Reuters reported. Meanwhile, the Indian government is faced with public pressure to bring back the pilot, Abhinandan Varthaman, who is in Pakistani custody after his jet crashed in an air battle on Wednesday. Pakistan has claimed it captured one Indian pilot who was later identified as Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was flying a Mig-21, which was shot down after an aerial encounter between Pakistan and India, a first in 48 years. A video of the pilot circulating on social media, in which the captured pilot is being attacked by an angry Pakistani mob, prompted a strong objection from India. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj called it a "vulgar display" of injured personnel and a violation of the Geneva Convention and International Humanitarian Law. The convention calls for dignified treatment of military personnel during times of war and armed international conflict even when it is not a declared war. India’s Ministry of External Affairs also held meetings with a Pakistani envoy in Delhi and it is understood it handed over Pakistan a dossier containing details of Jaish-e-Mohammed's involvement in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, which killed over 40 CRPF security personnel. Jaish had claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in the valley in over three decades. Several international flights have been impacted after Pakistan closed its airspace and India shut down airports in the North West. As many as 16 international flights were cancelled as of Wednesday. Air Canada temporarily suspended its flights to India, and said a Vancouver-Delhi flight had to turn around mid-way. India has also tightened security in major cities -- the Delhi Metro has been put on red alert while Mumbai has also beefed up security. India’s commercial pilots have also come together offering to stand united as a ‘second line of defence’ after the Indian air force and support government efforts. India has termed Pakistan’s violation of Indian air space an act of aggression and accused it of targeting military installations, in stark contrast to India’s ‘non-military’ air strike in Pakistan the previous day that it says targeted a terror camp. Just hours after the air battle, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan extended an olive branch in a televised address, asking for a dialogue and warning against the dangers of an escalated conflict, while saying Pakistan had to retaliate and its action was a display of its military capabilities. With agencies See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india-confirms-losing-a-fighter-jet-and-the-pilot-is-still-missing-in-action-after-a-dogfight-with-pakistani-forces/articleshow/68184021.cms">India confirms losing a fighter jet and the pilot is still 'missing in action' after a dogfight with Pakistani forces</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/markets-sell-off-in-mumbai-and-karachi-as-india-and-pakistan-tensions-escalate/articleshow/68184744.cms">Markets turn nervous watching India and Pakistan ramp up military action</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international-flights-disrupted-between-india-pakistan-airports-shut-down/articleshow/68180847.cms">Flights disrupted as India-Pakistan tensions escalate</a>

International pressure mounts on India and Pakistan to avert a full-blown war

<ul><li>Airports in Srinagar, Jammu, Leh, Amritsar and Chandigarh have reportedly been shut. </li><li>The incident comes a day after India said it conducted a ‘non military’ ‘pre-emptive’ air strike.</li></ul>All flights between India and Pakistan were suspended and at least six airports have been shut in North India amid heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Airports in Srinagar, Jammu, Leh, Amritsar, Dehradun and Chandigarh have reportedly been closed for civilian operations following reports that two planes of the Pakistani air force had entered the Indian air space in Nowshera, Kashmir on Wednesday morning. India's Minister of External Affairs spokesperson has confirmed the <keyword id="15141" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Air-Force">Indian air force</keyword> had an aerial encounter with Pakistan and that India had shot down one Pakistani jet. India also lost one Mig 21 and one pilot was missing in action, he added. Earlier, the planes were pushed back by Indian forces, Indian news agencies <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/pakistan-violates-indian-air-space-in-nowshera/articleshow/68179860.cms">reported</a>. Meanwhile, Pakistan has <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/india-kashmir/pakistan-shoots-down-indian-jets-carries-out-airstrikes-in-kashmir-idINKCN1QG0I1">claimed</a> it has shot down two Indian fighter jets and had captured one of the pilots. The crash, which has <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/india-kashmir/pakistan-shoots-down-indian-jets-carries-out-airstrikes-in-kashmir-idINKCN1QG0I1">reportedly</a> killed two Indian pilots and one civilian, took place in Budgam in Kashmir. India has restricted air space in parts of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, closing airports in Srinagar, Leh and Jammu. The incident comes a day after India said it conducted a ‘non military’ ‘pre-emptive’ air strike at a terror camp across the Line of Control with Pakistan. The use of air force <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/iaf-air-strike-mirage-awacs-sukhoi-popeye-jaish-training-camp-balakot-5602272/">was</a> the first since India fought Pakistan in 1971. The target terror camp struck by India was <keyword id="6355098" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="LoC">loc</keyword>ated in Balakot, about 50 miles from the LOC. The air strike came in the wake of a suicide bomber attack on February 14 in Pulwama, Kashmir that killed over 40 security personnel. India has so far emphasised it's air raid on Tuesday was ‘pre-emptive’ and ‘non-military’, signaling it didn't wish to escalate the conflict. India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/balakot-strike-sushma-swaraj-india-pakistan-5602424/">told</a> diplomats from China and Russia that “India will continue to act with responsibility and restrain.” On Wednesday, in the wake of the violation of India’s air space, Pakistani foreign ministry also said it “had no intention of escalation” but was “fully prepared to do so if forced into that paradigm” Reuters reported. Both US and China have asked the two countries to act with restraint. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/us-secretary-of-state-urges-india-pak-to-de-escalate-tensions-prioritise-communication-5602472/">asked</a> India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and to prioritise communication. On Tuesday, China had also urged both countries to exercise restraint, and stressing for “cooperation” by the two countries in the interest of peace and stability in the South Asia region.

Flights disrupted as India-Pakistan tensions escalate

<ul><li><keyword id="3828708" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="US-President-Donald-Trump">US President Donald Trump</keyword> has offered to help ‘mediate’ on the India-China border dispute.</li><li>His offer of help comes at a time when relations between China and the US aren’t at their best. </li><li>The last time he offered to ‘mediate’ on the India-Pakistan issue over Kashmir, India was quick to reiterate that it was a bilateral issue that the two countries would resolve between themselves.</li></ul>The US President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> took to Twitter to offer his help to resolve issues between India and China. He announced that both countries have been informed that the US is “ready, willing and able” to mediate their “raging” border dispute. <div type="twitter" handle="realDonaldTrump" handlename="Donald J. Trump" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/874276197357596672/kUuht00m_normal.jpg" favoritecount="37442" retweetcount="8709" status="We have informed both India and China that the United States is ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate the… https://t.co/t5cenR7qkp" createdat="1590578488000" id="1265604027678670848"></div> Trump’s offer to help comes at a time when tensions are high between the US and China too. Just a few hours ago China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, told the press that the situation between India and China is stable. “We are committed to safeguarding our territorial sovereignty and security, and safeguarding peace and stability in the border areas. Now the China-India border area situation is overall stable and controllable,” he said. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="75883231" title="‘Not accurate’ and ‘nonsense’ — India and China in a war of words in New Delhi while flexing muscles across the Ladakh border" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> Over the past one month, India and China have been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/news/india-has-no-plans-of-backing-off-as-the-india-china-border-in-galwan-valley-is-up-for-debate-for-the-third-time/articleshow/76025347.cms">locked in a standoff in the Galwan Valley</a> over the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC). Both sides have stepped up their troops in order to assert control. While India wants to maintain the status quo, China wants India to stop its construction activity. Not the first time that Trump has offered to help on bilateral issues This isn’t the first time that Trump has offered to “mediate” on bilateral issues that India is facing. In the past, when Pakistan expressed its disappointment about the Indian government revoking Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir — which has been a subject of debate between the two countries since their independence in 1947 — he told White House reporters, “I am willing to help them if they want. They know that. That [offer] is out there.” <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="75818433" title="Amidst a pandemic, both China and India have reportedly deployed troops in Ladakh as tensions flare up along the border" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> Last time around, India was quick to reject the offer, reiterating that the issue of Kashmir between the two nations was a bilateral dispute and would be resolved between them. India asserted that it was an internal matter. China is fighting a lot of countries at this moment Experts believe that the current disputes have brought the world’s two largest economies to ‘the brink of a new Cold War’. “China has no intension to change the US nor replace the US. It is also wishful thinking for the US to change China,” Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said during his annual news briefing on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress meeting currently underway in Beijing. The two countries have continuously been clashing on numerous issues from trade to human rights. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has brought about a new low between the two with the US blaming China for inflicting the virus on the rest of the world as 100,000 Americans have died due to the infection. “It came from China. We are not happy about it. We just signed a trade deal, the ink wasn’t dry and all of a sudden this floated in. We are not going to take it lightly,” Trump said during a Listening Session with African-American Leaders in Michigan. As recently as last week, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/pentagon-says-chinas-military-is-challenging-the-us-with-risky-run-ins-in-the-south-china-sea-during-the-pandemic/articleshow/75857200.cms?utm_source=TOInewHP_TILwidget&amp;utm_medium=ABtest&amp;utm_campaign=TOInewHP">Pentagon</a> said that the US Military has had ‘unsafe encounters’ with the Chinese Military in the South China Sea. Reed Werner, the deputy assistant secret of defence for Southeast Asia told Fox News, that there have been ‘at least nine’ incidents involving Chinese fighter jets and US aircraft in the skies over the disputed segment of the waterway. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/news/china-is-evacuating-citizens-from-india-as-border-tensions-escalate-and-covid-19-cases-spike/articleshow/75994973.cms">After the US, China is evacuating citizens from India as border tensions escalate and COVID-19 cases spike</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/news/india-has-no-plans-of-backing-off-as-the-india-china-border-in-galwan-valley-is-up-for-debate-for-the-third-time/articleshow/76025347.cms">India has no plans of backing off as the India-China border in Galwan Valley is up for debate for the third time</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/news/china-triples-its-boats-in-indias-pangong-tso-lake-as-tensions-continue-to-rise/articleshow/75838836.cms">China reportedly triples its boats in India’s Pangong Tso Lake as tensions continue to rise</a>

Donald Trump offers to mediate the ‘raging’ border dispute between India and China

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Pakistan has returned captured Indian Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was being held after his plane got shot down.</li><li>Varthaman parachuted to the ground, where he ate documents to keep Pakistan from seeing them, witnesses told Reuters and Pakistani newspaper Dawn.</li><li>Pakistan shared two videos of Varthaman in custody. One where he is bloodied and blindfolded, and another where he drinks tea and praises his captors.</li><li>India is welcoming Varthaman back as a hero after his return late Friday night.</li></ul>Pakistan returned a captured Indian fighter pilot late on Friday, after a dramatic clash between regional rivals that&#xa0; him shot down over the fiercely-contested Kashmir border region.According to reports in local media, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman parachuted from his stricken plane, fended off locals on the ground by firing warning shots from his pistol, and swallowed sensitive paperwork to keep it secret.Varthaman was shot down and captured on Wednesday when the two countries clashed in the air, the latest in a series of encounters following a February 14 terrorist attack that left 40 Indian troops dead.When Varthaman landed he asked&#xa0; if he was in India or Pakistan, two witnesses told Reuters.On hearing he was in Pakistan, he fired a shot into the air as locals picked up stones, the witnesses said.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>According to the witnesses, he then ran, firing shots behind him, and jumped into a small pond where he took out documents and maps, ate some of them and soaked others in water to prevent Pakistan from getting them.He was then restrained by the locals until Pakistani soldiers arrived.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/r-saved-from-pakistani-mob-downed-indian-pilot-becomes-face-of-kashmir-crisis-2019-2" data-analytics-position="2">After being saved from an angry mob, an Indian pilot shot down over Pakistan has become the face of the latest crisis between the 2 nuclear-armed rivals</a>Abdul Majeed, 40, told Reuters that he was one of the locals who had beaten and thrown stones at Varthaman.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>"While in the stream he once again pointed his revolver at us and fearing that he may shoot directly at us, I threw a stone at him," he said."Some of us did thrash him... because he had given us a tough time. But later we handed him over to the army personnel."A witness, who was not named, gave the same details <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1466569">to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.</a><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Varthaman was kept in Pakistan's custody until Friday, when he was returned to India in what Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called a "peace gesture."Footage broadcast on Pakistani state TV showed Varthaman, surrounded by soldiers, crossing into India on foot, where he is set to be welcomed as a hero.<h2>Pakistan shared videos of the pilot in their custody</h2>Shortly after his capture, Varthaman was shown in video published by Pakistan with a bloodied face and wearing a blindfold - treatment which experts say could violate <keyword id="6356001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">international</keyword> treaties. Pakistan's information ministry later deleted the video on its Twitter account.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>In it, he gave his name, rank, and service number, and called his captors "sir."Officials later shared a second video of the pilot, that shows him drinking tea and saying that Pakistan is treating him well."I would like to put this on record &amp; I would not change my statement if I go back to my country. The officers of the Pakistan Army have looked after me very well. They are thorough gentlemen," he says in the video.The videos helped Varthaman become the face of the conflict between the two nuclear powers, which could have become a "mutual suicide" for the two nations had it escalated into war, Pakistan's foreign minister <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2019/02/28/amanpour-shah-mehmood-qureshi.cnn">told CNN.</a>Indian military officials said on Thursday that they welcomed the return of Varthaman, but refused to say if they considered his return to be a de-escalation of the conflict, Reuters reported.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-pakistan-kashmir-nuclear-weapons-climate-cooling-2019-2" data-analytics-position="2">If India and Pakistan have a 'limited' nuclear war, scientists say it could wreck Earth's climate and trigger global famine</a>Air Vice Marshal RGK Kapoor said at a joint news conference of&#xa0;India's three armed forces on Thursday evening that India is "happy" that Varthaman was to be released the next day. He did not answer reporters who asked if whether this would de-escalate the conflict.Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Pakistan wants "peace and stability in the region." Khan previously questioned whether the countries could "afford miscalculation" given the devastation that could be caused by their nuclear arsenals.World leaders such as the US, EU, and China had urged the countries to exercise caution, emphasising the importance of peace in the region.<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/president-declare-national-emergency-what-happens-2019-2">What happens when the president declares a national emergency</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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