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The <keyword id="15141" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Air-Force">Indian Air Force</keyword> left the sky of <keyword id="48396" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pokhran">Pokhran</keyword> smoky and lit up with a mega exercise ‘<keyword id="7334968" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vayu-Shakti-2019">Vayu Shakti 2019</keyword>’ on Saturday involving several fighter jets and attack helicopters in a ‘fire’ demonstration. 
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IN PICS: Indian Air Force puts on display a ‘fire power’ demo, featuring fighter jets and choppers

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">AP/Fareed KhanPakistan army troops.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Pakistan has readied its military and alerted its hospitals to stand by to receive wounded troops as tensions rise in anticipation of war with its nuclear rival, India. </li><li>A Pakistan-based Muslim separatist group carried out a massive terror attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, a contested region the two countries have already fought two wars over.</li><li>India and Pakistan both built nuclear arsenals to counter each other, and now appear on the brink of war.</li><li>Statements from China and the US indicate the two larger nuclear powers may already be picking sides in a potential fight. </li></ul>Pakistan has readied its military and alerted its hospitals to stand by to receive wounded troops as tensions rise after its nuclear rival and neighbor India,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/indias-modi-unleashes-military-on-pakistan-after-pulwama-terrorism-2019-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> unleashed its military to extract vengeance</a> after a terror attack in Kashmir left 44 dead. India and Pakistan both claim the border region of Kashmir, but administer different parts of the disputed territory the countries have already fought two wars over.A Muslim separatist group, called Jaish-e-Mohammed and based in Pakistan, took responsibility for the terror attack, but India has accused Pakistan of having official involvement. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters</div></div></div>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded to the attack by saying his country's "blood boils" and that he had set the military free to respond however it saw fit. Pakistan then wrote to hospitals on February 20 to arrange a plan for medical support in the event that fighting breaks out, <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pak-army-begins-preparations-for-conflict-tells-hospitals-to-be-ready/articleshow/68104050.cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Times of India reported</a>. The letter called for hospitals to earmark 25% of their beds for injured soldiers, to prepare for expanding their capacity to house patients, and to plan on shifting them around and away from the front lines during fighting, according to the Times of India. "We have no intention to initiate war, but we will respond with full force to full spectrum threat that would surprise you," Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor told Reuters from the city of Rawalpindi. "Don't mess with Pakistan."<h2>Nuclear rivals on the brink</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Pakistan/117ec1fbc38241e4b69e0f271e5e4b68/7/0">Anjum Naveed/AP</a>A Pakistani-made Shaheen-III missile, that is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, is on display during a military parade to mark Pakistan's Republic Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan.</div></div></div>The UN on Friday "condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly suicide bombing" in Kashmir and called out Jaish-e-Mohammed by name. Pakistan banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2002, but on Friday, they knew exactly where to find the terror group. Authorities "took control" of the terror group in Bahawalpur and appointed an administrator to look after its affairs, according to its government. Jaish-e-Mohammed headquarters hosted a seminary with 600 students and 70 teachers, it said. The Kashmir issue and other regional issues have kept India and Pakistan on the edge of war for decades, but in recent years things have taken a turn for the worse.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rejects-nationalizing-5g-weakens-us-hand-against-huawei-china-2019-2" data-analytics-position="1">Trump's rejection of 'socialism' makes America weak in the fight for 5G against China's Huawei</a>Today, both Pakistan and India have grown in nationalist fervor, with online militias on Facebook and elsewhere lusting for blood and mocking each other's militaries and nations.India and Pakistan developed nuclear arsenals to deter each other from fighting, but small cross border raids and violence have been common for years.Furthermore, both Pakistan and India's nuclear-armed backers have taken sides in the conflict already. <h2>China and US picking sides?</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/B MathurA surface-to-surface Agni V missile during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, January 26, 2013.</div></div></div>China tried to block the UN statement condemning Jaish-e-Mohammed and <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/china-indicates-it-wont-budge-on-masood-azhar-issue/articleshow/68118223.cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bizarrely downplayed the statement in its state-run media</a> while US National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump, John Bolton, <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1096743998625062912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended India's right to self defense</a> and called for Pakistan to crack down on the group, suggesting Pakistan provided safe haven for terrorists.Pakistan famously hosted Osama Bin Ladin for years before a 2011 US raid took him out in Abbottabad. Iran blamed a terror attack that killed 27 members of its elite Revolutionary Guards on a Pakistan man in February. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-officials-sought-to-help-saudi-arabia-build-nuclear-weapons-2019-2" data-analytics-position="2">Trump's administration reportedly looked for ways to help Saudi Arabia build a nuclear weapon</a>India's Modi seeks re-election this year and has built a name for himself as a strong Hindu nationalist. Christopher Clary, an international affairs expert and professor at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs &amp; Policy at the University of Albany, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/indias-modi-unleashes-military-on-pakistan-after-pulwama-terrorism-2019-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously told Business Insider</a> the situation could quickly spiral out of control due to political pressure on both sides."We don't have that many countries with nuclear weapons that share a common border, so things can get pretty hairy," said Clary. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twin-brothers-chicago-helped-take-down-el-chapo-margarito-pedro-flores-wives-cocaine-traffickers2017-6">The wives of high-level cocaine traffickers reveal how their husbands took down 'El Chapo'</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Pakistan readies military, hospitals for war with its nuclear rival India after Pulwama terror attack

<ul><li>Chinese President Xi Jinping is in India for the second informal meeting with PM Modi. </li><li>The first informal meeting held at Wuhan in China did result in slight normalisation of relations--- which soured after the 2017 Doklam standoff. </li><li>This meeting is expected to thaw the frosty relations between the two neighbours over several issues, including Kashmir, UNSC permanent membership and Chinese company Huawei. </li></ul> Chinese Premier Xi Jinping landed in Chennai <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-modi-arrives-in-chennai-to-attend-2nd-indo-china-informal-summit/articleshow/71535568.cms">a little after 2 pm today </a>to participate in the second informal meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu. The <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/xi-jinping-india-china-informal-summit-border-terror-on-agenda-at-pm-modi-xi-meet-today-2115002">first informal meeting held at Wuhan in China did result in slight normalisation </a>of relations — which soured after the 2017 Doklam standoff. This meeting is expected to thaw the frosty relations between the two neighbours over several issues, including Kashmir. China’s stance on Kashmir The Indian foreign ministry <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3032384/steer-clear-india-pakistan-dispute-over-kashmir-new-delhi">refused to discuss the Kashmir issue</a> on October 10. This was a day after <a href="https://www.news18.com/news/world/pakistan-pm-imran-khan-arrives-in-china-to-meet-president-xi-jinping-2337721.html">Xi met Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan</a> in Beijing on Wednesday. After that, <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kashmir-in-focus-as-imran-khan-xi-jinping-meet-beijing-cites-un-charter-2114351">a joint statement was released </a>by China and <keyword id="3001" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pakistan">Pakistan</keyword><a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-imran-khan-china-ties-trade-cpec-jcc-kashmir-hong-kong-1608115-2019-10-10"> stating</a> that Jammu and Kashmir should be "properly and peacefully <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/xi-jinping-india-china-informal-summit-border-terror-on-agenda-at-pm-modi-xi-meet-today-2115002">resolved</a> based on the UN Charter, relevant UN Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements." In response, India asked them to off the issue <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indias-counter-to-xi-jinpings-kashmir-remark-its-an-internal-matter-2114288">saying</a>, "India's position has been consistent and clear that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. China is well aware of our position. It is not for other countries to comment on the internal affairs of India." China also criticised India’s <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/xi-jinping-india-china-informal-summit-border-terror-on-agenda-at-pm-modi-xi-meet-today-2115002">decision to scrap</a> special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcate it into two union territories, at the UN General Assembly last month in New York. India’s decision on allowing Chinese company Huawei in its 5G rollout India <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/telecom-news/5g-spectrum-auction-by-year-end-or-early-2020-ravi-shankar-prasad/articleshow/71117477.cms">plans to auction 5G airwaves</a> this year but it remains undecided on<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/hopeful-india-will-make-independent-decision-on-5g-huawei-2114887"> whether or not to allow Chinese company Huawei </a>to compete. As China and the US are in the throes of a trade war, the latter has been arm twisting countries into<a href="https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/12/11/18134440/huawei-executive-order-entity-list-china-trump"> banning Huawei</a> from 5G roll-outs because of allegations of spying. And, there is a huge divide — <a href="https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/huawei-says-banning-company-will-delay-india-s-5g-rollout-by-2-3-years-1567500859756.html">Australia and Japan have barred</a> Huawei while Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia refused to. Both these countries seek an ally in India, as it holds a big bargaining chip. It is the <a href="https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/huawei-says-banning-company-will-delay-india-s-5g-rollout-by-2-3-years-1567500859756.html">world’s second largest mobile services market. </a> For both US and China, India’s decision on the matter is key, and it has not spilled the beans on this topic. China’s stance on India’s inclusion in the UN Security Council Even after warm affirmations from the UK, France and Russia over India’s candidature for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council,<a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-campaign-for-permanent-seat-at-unsc-slowing-down/article29161642.ece"> China’s stance remains lukewarm. </a>India<a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/unsc-non-permanent-seat-indias-candidature-endorsed-by-55-countries-including-pakistan/article28142769.ece"> has been elected as a non-permanent member in the UNSC</a> a record seven times, and has been seeking a permanent seat, along with Germany, Japan and Brazil. It also does not help that China <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/after-chinas-masood-azhar-block-unsc-vote-under-consideration/articleshow/68418293.cms?from=mdr">blocked</a> the proposal to designate Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist for almost 10 years back, before finally lifting the hold earlier this year. Azhar was <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/masood-azhar-hafiz-saeed-dawood-declared-terrorists-under-new-uapa-law-1595463-2019-09-04">involved in planning several terrorist attacks</a> against India, including the 2019 Pulwama attacks. China presiding over FATF and protecting Pakistan China was one of the countries which was<a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/china-turkey-malaysia-bail-out-pakistan-at-fatf-meet/articleshow/69899220.cms?from=mdr"> protecting Pakistan</a> from being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Malaysia and Turkey were the other countries which had come to its aid. China <a href="https://www.fatf-gafi.org/about/fatfpresidency/">presides over the international anti-money laundering body</a> which assesses a country’s efforts to combat terrorist funding. Pakistan <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/masood-azhar-hafiz-saeed-dawood-declared-terrorists-under-new-uapa-law-1595463-2019-09-04">was finally placed on the FATF</a> blacklist in August this year. China seeing the Quad as a threat The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (or simply, the Quad), comprising India, Japan, the US and Australia is a strategic partnership to counter the spread of China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region. Beijing was <a href="https://www.news18.com/news/india/five-reasons-why-china-is-worried-about-the-quad-coalition-1575397.html">expectedly unhappy and has been protesting </a>within diplomatic circles, especially after they carried out joint military exercises. China also <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167457/japan-and-vietnam-join-hands-over-disputed-south-china-sea">has a long-standing feud with Japan</a> over islands in the South China Sea, besides the border issue in India’s northeast. Despite Australia’s reservations on upsetting China, their growing proximity with New Delhi signals that China should <a href="https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/vzKYXmhiLn1HVL6nDf4r4K/India-and-the-Quad-countries.html">beware of this small but steadily brewing partnership.</a> If even one of these many long pending issues are sorted,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/list-of-monuments-chinese-president-xi-jingping-is-going-to-visit-in-india/articleshow/71521441.cms"> the meeting between the two leaders could be as historic as the city they are meeting at.</a> See also: 
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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30878">Public Domain</a>GWALIOR AIR FORCE STATION, India -- An Indian air force Mirage 2000 taxis into position following a Cope India 2004 sortie</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>India on Tuesday launched airstrikes across its border with Pakistan in a military escalation following a terror attack in Kashmir that left 40 Indian troops dead.</li><li>Pakistan immediately convened a meeting of its nuclear commanders and issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat to India. </li><li>The airstrike from India involved nuclear-capable aircraft and, according to India, killed up to 300 militants, but Pakistan says the Indian jets were chased off and killed no one. </li><li>With China closely backing Pakistan and US support for India, the two rivals have long been seen as a potential flash point for a global nuclear conflict. </li><li>Both sides appear out for blood now as gun fighting cracks off on the border and Indians around the country celebrate what they see as vengeance for the terror attack. </li></ul>India on Tuesday launched airstrikes across its border with Pakistan in a military escalation following decades of bitter rivalry and a terror attack in Kashmir that left 40 Indian troops dead, and Pakistan immediately convened a meeting of its nuclear commanders. Gun fighting on the ground followed along India and Pakistan's de facto border after what Vipin Narang, an MIT professor and an expert on the two country's conventional and nuclear forces, called "India's most significant airstrike against Pak in half a century."The strikes happened after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi unleashed the military to respond however it saw fit after the terror attack, which India blames on Islamist militants based in Pakistan.India and Pakistan have fought three wars over the disputed territory, and analysts are closely watching the crisis for clues about whether it could escalate from airstrikes to a heightened nuclear posture.Pakistan denies any involvement in the terror attack, but swiftly "took control" of the Jaish-e-Mohammed militants camp in question.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pakistan-readies-military-hospitals-for-war-nuclear-rival-india-kashmir-pulwama-2019-2" data-analytics-position="2">Pakistan readies military, hospitals for war with its nuclear rival India after Pulwama terror attack</a> <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir#/media/File:Kashmir_region_2004.jpg">CIA via Wikimedia Commons</a>Political map of the Kashmir region districts, showing the Pir Panjal range and the Kashmir valley or Vale of Kashmir.</div></div></div>India says its airstrikes killed as many as 300 Muslim separatist militants, but it is unclear whether the attack had any effect. Pakistan claims its air force scrambled fighter jets and chased India off, forcing the jets to hastily drop their bombs in an unpopulated area; Pakistan's prime minister called India's claims "fictitious."India flew its Mirage 2000 jets for the mission, which it uses as part of its nuclear deterrent. The jets dropped more than 2,000 pounds of laser-guided bombs, according to <a href="https://www.news18.com/news/india/surgical-strikes-2-0-1000-kg-laser-guided-bombs-mirage-2000s-and-other-details-we-know-so-far-2048725.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News18.com</a>. As a branch of India's nuclear forces, the Mirage 2000 fleet has some of the most ready aircraft and pilots, <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/mirage-2000-jets-iaf-airstrike-all-you-need-to-know-1465322-2019-02-26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">India Today notes</a>. The strike took place about 30 miles deep into Pakistan's territory in a town called Balakot, Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale <a href="https://www.news18.com/news/india/vijay-gokhale-press-conference-on-surgical-strikes-2-0-live-updates-2048845.html?ref=hp_top_pos_8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a press conference</a>. "The existence of such training facilities, capable of training hundreds of jihadis, could not have functioned without the knowledge of the Pakistani authorities," Gokhale said. The US has similarly accused Pakistan of harboring terrorists, and backed India's right to self-defense following the terror attack. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/indias-modi-unleashes-military-on-pakistan-after-pulwama-terrorism-2019-2" data-analytics-position="4">India unleashes its military on Pakistan after a terror attack stoked the feud between the nuclear rivals</a>Maj. Gen. Asif Hafþór, the spokesperson for Pakistan's military, said that Pakistan successfully scrambled jets and scared off the incoming Indian Mirage 2000s, and also tweeted pictures of craters and parts of what could be Indian bombs."Payload of hastily escaping Indian aircrafts fell in open," <a href="https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR/status/1100231826348617728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghafoor said of the images</a>. It's unclear if India hit their targets, actually killed anyone, or simply dropped fuel tanks upon leaving Pakistan.India's airstrikes hit relatively close to Pakistan's prominent military academies and capital of Islamabad, potentially raising concern among the military that it's at threat from further Indian strikes. <h2>Pakistan's nuclear threat<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters stringerPakistan's Hatf VII (Babur) missile takes off during a test from an undisclosed location in December 2007.</div></div></div></h2>At a press conference in response to the airstrikes, Ghafoor issued a veiled nuclear threat to India. "We will surprise you. Wait for that surprise. I said that our response will be different. The response will come differently," Ghafoor said at a press conference.Ghafoor continued that Pakistan had called a meeting of its National Command Authority, which controls the country's nuclear arsenal. "You all know what that means," Ghafoor said of the nuclear commanders' meeting in a press conference he posted to Twitter. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/9-nuclear-nations-arsenals-ranked-us-vs-russia-china-wins-2019-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We ranked the world's nuclear arsenals - here's why China's came out on top</a>But India has nuclear weapons and means to deliver them too. Additionally, both countries maintain large conventional militaries that have become increasingly hostile in their rhetoric towards each other. <h2>Best case scenario? Conventional skirmishes</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">APAn Indian officer from the Indian Central Reserve Police Force shouts slogans during preparations for the upcoming Republic Day parade, near the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. Indian marks Republic Day on Jan. 26.</div></div></div>India and Pakistan have fought three wars over the border and have nuclearized to counter each other's forces. With China closely backing Pakistan and US support for India, the two rivals have long been seen as a potential flash point for a global nuclear conflict. <a href="https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1100421761609416705" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters' Idrees Ali reported</a> after the strikes that gunfights had broken out along Pakistan and India's border. The two countries have fought three wars over the disputed region of Kashmir, which both countries claim but administer only in part. Both India and Pakistan now appear out for blood following the fighting. Reuters reported that all around India people were celebrating, and Modi praised the military as "heroes."Meanwhile, Paksitan's denial that the airstrikes hit anything may give them some deniability and wiggle room to not respond with escalation, but hardliners within Pakistan will likely call for action. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twin-brothers-chicago-helped-take-down-el-chapo-margarito-pedro-flores-wives-cocaine-traffickers2017-6">The wives of high-level cocaine traffickers reveal how their husbands took down 'El Chapo'</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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