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Iam feeling nobody sending any drones ankuls.. 

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ori mee kuthan 10nga.. enni drones pamputaru ra Pakistan ollu.. vallu pamputane unnaru meeru kalustane unnaru.. 

em comedy show ra idi.. endukura itla comedy chestunaru.. 

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urke paisal bokka pedtunaru interceptors fire chesi imaginary drones meedaki.. 

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4 minutes ago, halwafan said:

ori mee kuthan 10nga.. enni drones pamputaru ra Pakistan ollu.. vallu pamputane unnaru meeru kalustane unnaru.. 

em comedy show ra idi.. endukura itla comedy chestunaru.. 

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53 minutes ago, halwafan said:

Iam feeling nobody sending any drones ankuls.. 

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3 minutes ago, Rushabhi said:

Velli ekkadaina choopinchuko 

nuvu kudana 

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55 minutes ago, halwafan said:

Iam feeling nobody sending any drones ankuls.. 

anna nuvvu inka cheppatle aa terrorists pakistan kaadu annav gaa, source kosam waiting

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Just now, halwafan said:

nuvu kudana 

Naaku kallu moosuku poledhu?

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Just now, Rushabhi said:

Naaku kallu moosuku poledhu?

Colourful interceptors ni chusi mosapotunaru 

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ho are the armed groups India accuses Pakistan of backing?

Here is more about The Resistance Front, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 7: Women hold the flag representing the Pakistani-administered territory of Azad Kashmir as they take part in a protest outside the Indian High Commission on May 7, 2025 in London, England. India conducted retaliatory air strikes on Pakistan last night in the wake of the Pahalgam massacre on 22nd April, where 28 mostly non- Muslim tourists were killed when five armed militants targeted Hindu men in the group visiting the Baisaran Valley. A Christian tourist and a local Muslim were also killed in the attack, thought to be carried out by The Resistance Front (TRF), believed to be an offshoot of Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. India has accused Pakistan of supporting cross-border terrorism, a claim they deny. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Women hold the flag representing the Pakistani-administered territory of Kashmir protest outside the Indian High Commission in London [Carl Court/Getty Images]
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Tensions are higher between India and Pakistan than they have been in decades as the two countries trade blame for drone attacks on each other’s territory over the past few days. At the heart of the dispute is what India claims is Pakistan’s support for armed separatist groups operating in Kashmir, a region disputed between the two countries.

An armed group called The Resistance Front (TRF) claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month in which 26 people were killed. India alleges that TRF is an offshoot of another Pakistan-based armed group, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and has blamed Pakistan for supporting such groups.

Pakistan has denied this. It condemned the attack in April and called for an independent investigation.

 

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Here is more about who the armed groups are and the major attacks they’ve claimed or been blamed for.

The Resistance Front (TRF)

The TRF emerged in 2019 following the Indian government’s suspension of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, stripping Indian-administered Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status.

However, the group was not widely known before the Pahalgam attack, which it took responsibility for in April via the Telegram messaging app, on which it said it was opposed to the granting of residency permits to “outsiders”.

Since the repeal of Article 370, non-Kashmiris have been granted residency permits to settle in Indian-administered Kashmir. This has stoked fears that the Indian government is trying to change the demographics of Kashmir, whose population is nearly all Muslim.

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Unlike other armed rebel groups in Kashmir, the TRF does not have an Islamic name.

However, the Indian government maintains that it is an offshoot of, or a front for, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based armed group whose name means “Army of the Pure”.

In 2020, TRF started claiming responsibility for minor attacks, including some targeted killings. TRF recruits included rebels from different splinter rebel groups. Indian security agents say they have arrested multiple TRF members since then.

According to Indian government records, most armed fighters killed in gunfights in Kashmir were affiliated with the TRF in 2022.

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)

The LeT, which calls for the “liberation” of Indian-administered Kashmir, was founded around 1990 by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who is also known as Hafiz Saeed.

In 2008, armed gunmen opened fire on civilians at several sites in Mumbai, India, killing 166 people. Ajmal Kasab, the only attacker captured alive, said the attackers were members of LeT. Saeed denied any involvement in that attack, however. Kasab was executed by India in 2012.

India also blamed Pakistani intelligence agencies for the attack. While Pakistan conceded that the attack may have been partly planned on Pakistani soil, it maintained that its government and intelligence agencies were not involved.

According to the United Nations, LeT was also involved in a 2001 attack on India’s parliament and a 2006 attack on Mumbai commuter trains that killed 189 people. 

On May 7, India launched missile attacks on several cities in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. One of these cities was Muridke in the Punjab province. India claims that Muridke was the location of the headquarters of the Jamat-ud-Dawa, a charity organisation that New Delhi insists is a front for the LeT.

Last week, the Indian army claimed it had struck LeT’s Markaz Taiba camp in Muridke. The army also claimed Kasab had been trained at this camp.

Pakistan says LeT has been banned, however. Following an attack on Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pulwama in 2019, Pakistan also reimposed a lapsed ban on Jamat-ud-Dawa. Saeed was arrested in 2019 and is in the custody of the Pakistani government, serving a 31-year prison sentence after being convicted in two “terror financing” cases.

Jaish-e-Muhammad

Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), or “The Army of Muhammad”, was formed around 2000 by Masood Azhar, who had been released from Indian prison in 1999.

Azhar, who had been arrested on “terrorism” charges, was released in exchange for 155 hostages being held by hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane.

Azhar previously fought under the banner of a group called Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which calls for Kashmir to be united with Pakistan, and has been linked to al-Qaeda.

According to the UN Security Council, JeM has also had links with al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.

Pakistan banned JeM in 2002 after the group, alongside LeT, was blamed for an attack on the Indian parliament in 2001.

The British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of killing US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002, was also a member of JeM. Pearl was the Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief. However, a 2011 report released by the Pearl Project at Georgetown University following its own investigation claimed that Pearl had not been murdered by Sheikh. The report instead alleged that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, was responsible. In 2021, a panel of three judges at Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered Sheikh’s release.

Despite the ban, Indian authorities claim the group continues to operate in Bahawalpur, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. On May 7, the Indian army claimed its strikes had also targeted the headquarters of JeM there.

In 2019, JeM claimed a suicide bomb attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers in Pulwama in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Azhar has been arrested by Pakistani authorities twice, but was released and has never been charged. He has since disappeared from the public eye and his current whereabouts are not known.

Hizbul-ul-Mujahideen

Hizbul-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), or “Party of Holy Fighters” was formed in 1989 by Kashmiri separatist leader Muhammad Ahsan Dar.

The group emerged out of the 1988 protests in Kashmir against the Indian government. The group, also called Hizb, has become the largest Indigenous rebel group based in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Rather than calling for independence, HuM calls for the whole of Kashmir to be allowed to accede to Pakistan.

The group has a huge network of fighters in Shopian, Kulgam and Pulwama districts in the south of Indian-administered Kashmir.

In 2016, the killing of popular HuM commander Burhan Wani triggered widespread protests in Indian-administered Kashmir, resulting in a crackdown by Indian security forces.

The following year, the US designated HuM as a “foreign terrorist organisation” and placed sanctions on the group.

HuM leader Riyaz Naikoo spoke to Al Jazeera in 2018. “It is the nature of the occupying Indian state that has compelled us to resort to violent methods of resistance,” he said.

When asked what the group’s demands were, Naikoo said: “Our demand is very simple – freedom. Freedom, for us, means the complete dismantling of India’s illegal occupation of Kashmir and all the structures that support it, be they military or economic.”

He added that the group considers Pakistan an “ideological and moral friend” because “Pakistan is the only country which has consistently supported our cause and raised the concerns of Kashmiri freedom struggle at international forums”.

 

 
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1 hour ago, Rushabhi said:

Naaku kallu moosuku poledhu?

open flightradar and look at pak airspace near Lahore which is 15 kms from border.. literally international flights are operating, British airways, airblue & PIA.. ee fight nijamite British airways odu operate chestada asalu.. 

even 1 air india flight is coming through pak airspace now .. 

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  • Blasts rang out across Indian-administered Kashmir and the city of Amritsar in neighbouring Punjab state, with the Indian military saying they were shooting down drones, while heavy cross-border artillery exchanges have resumed in the worst fighting with Pakistan in nearly three decades.
  • Pakistan’s military says there will be “no de-escalation” with India until it has responded fully to India’s strikes on Wednesday.
  • Pakistan’s information minister says his country has engaged only in a “defensive response so far” to India’s attacks on his country, as Pakistan’s military said India launched attack drones into Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two civilians.
  • At least 48 people have been reported killed so far – 32 of them in Pakistan – since India launched missiles on Wednesday that it said targeted “terrorist camps” in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Pakistan retaliated with a barrage of artillery strikes.
  • The clashes follow escalating tension between the two nuclear-armed countries since a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, which India blamed on Pakistan. Pakistan has denied any involvement.
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    Pakistan’s military says it has shot down 77 drones launched from India over two days

    Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan

    Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, says that Pakistan has so far shot down 77 drones launched from India over the last two days, while also challenging the Indian authorities to “show debris of at least one Pakistani aircraft or drone that Pakistan has fired”.

    The military spokesperson also provided an update on the total death toll from Indian missile strikes on several locations in Pakistan on Wednesday, saying a total of 33 people have died, with another 76 injured.

    “There are 33 slain, all civilians [with] seven females and five children. There are 62 injured civilians, including 10 females and two children,” he added.

    He said there had been no deaths among the military, while 14 military personnel had been injured.

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    Pakistan’s military says ‘no credence’ to claims it fired missiles, drones towards India

    Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan

    Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, has refuted all allegations that the Pakistan army has fired drones and missiles towards India.

    “No credence to their claims. They continue to lie. Their allegation is false. Otherwise, where is their evidence?” Chaudhry responded to a question posed by Al Jazeera during a news briefing in Rawalpindi on Friday.

    In a nearly two-hour-long briefing organised for the foreign media, Chaudhry was flanked by senior officials from Pakistan’s air force and navy.

    Chaudhry also denied recent news reports that Pakistan National Security Adviser Lieutenant General Asim Malik, who heads the country’s premier intelligence agency, ISI, has spoken to his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval.

    “There has been no direct contact between the two NSAs [national security advisers],” he said.

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    US in constant contact with India and Pakistan: White House

     

    The White House says that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in constant contact with the leaders of both India and Pakistan.

    Speaking to reporters at a briefing, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt reiterated that US President Donald Trump wants to see a de-escalation of the conflict.

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    ‘The situation is escalating’ amid explosions around Srinagar airport

     

    It is very unusual to hear explosions near the Srinagar airport, journalist Umar Mehraj, who has covered Indian-administered Kashmir for many years, tells Al Jazeera.

    “Many say that the electricity shutdowns that Kashmir is witnessing now are similar to what was witnessed during the Kargil War in 1999,” he said from Indian-administered Kashmir.

    “In my professional career, I’ve never seen anything as such with Pakistan using projectiles and drone strikes in Jammu or Kashmir,” Mehraj said.

    “The situation is escalating, there are heightened tensions, fears among the people, no one is sure what is going to be next,” he said.

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    Pakistan Cricket Board suspends PSL ‘indefinitely’

    Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan

    The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced that due to the “worsening of the situation” between India and Pakistan, the 10th edition of the Pakistan Super League has been postponed “indefinitely”.

    The announcement to suspend the PSL comes a day after the organisation said the tournament’s remaining eight matches would be played in the United Arab Emirates.

    Earlier, the Indian Premier League, cricket’s most lucrative domestic T20 tournament, was suspended with “immediate effect” for one week.

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    Explainer

    What is the Line of Control?

     

    With the fast-moving developments on the ground, let’s take a step back and look at what we mean by the Line of Control (LoC), a term our correspondents regularly use.

    • It is the de facto border dividing Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Indian-administered Kashmir.
    • The line originally marked the military front when the two countries declared a ceasefire in January 1949 after their first war over Kashmir.
    • It was formally named the LoC under the 1972 Simla Agreement, signed after the 1971 war that resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.

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    Clashes along Line of Control resume after hours of relative calm

     

    Umar Mehraj, a journalist based in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, said civilians living near the Line of Control that bisects Kashmir are increasingly fleeing as the situation is “escalating very dangerously” and cross-border fighting has resumed.

    “After 13 hours of relative calm today, the clashes along the Line of Control have resumed. There are also reports of heavy exchanges of artillery along the Line of Control in Kupwara, Poonch, Uri, and Samba,” he told Al Jazeera.

    “Civilians in the border area are living under growing fear, and thousands have fled their homes, seeking shelter in other areas or makeshift camps.”

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    1h ago
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    Analysis

    IPL not likely to finish season ‘in the near future’

     

    Raunak Kapoor, an Indian cricket broadcaster, says that while the Indian Premier League has been suspended for a week due to the tensions with Pakistan, it will likely be delayed for much longer.

    “I don’t see them finishing [the season] in the near future,” he told Al Jazeera from Mumbai.

    “We are probably looking at a time after the Indian monsoon [to complete the season], in September or October,” he added.

    Kapoor said he believes the authorities will act much like they did during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the IPL was suspended around April and resumed in the UAE around September.

    “They will certainly finish the league, whether they can manage it at home or not,” he said.

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    Explosions reported near Srinagar airport

     

    The news agency Reuters, citing local officials, is reporting that there have been about 10 explosions around Srinagar airport in Indian-administered Kashmir.

    Journalist Umar Mehraj told Al Jazeera that “multiple loud explosions were heard … near the Srinagar airport, after people had seen projectiles in the sky”.

    “Panic spread among locals,” Meraj said from Indian-administered Kashmir.

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    WATCH: Can India and Pakistan avoid a fourth war over Kashmir?

     

    The biggest military escalation between India and Pakistan in decades continues.

    Missile strikes, drone attacks, and deadly shelling have struck on both sides of the border in the disputed region of Kashmir.

    With dozens of civilians dead and both countries trading blame, can the two nuclear powers contain the dispute?

    Watch The Take below:

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    2h ago
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    International Crisis Group says world powers ‘indifferent’ to India-Pakistan crisis

     

    The think tank says “foreign powers appear to have been somewhat indifferent” to the prospect of war, despite warnings of possible escalation.

    “Aside from their preoccupation with the multitude of other crises unfolding around the world, many foreign capitals may also have feared contradicting themselves after having expressed support for India’s prerogative to ‘fight terrorism’ following the brutal Pahalgam killings,” the ICG said in a statement.

    US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said that Washington wanted to see a “de-escalation” in a worsening conflict between India and Pakistan, but that it was “fundamentally none of our business”.

    But the ICG said that a “combination of bellicose rhetoric, domestic agitation and the remorseless logic of military one-upmanship have heightened the risks of escalation, particularly because for some time there was no diplomatic communication between the sides”.

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    ‘We still have an opportunity for an off-ramp’: India’s former FM

     

    India’s former Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has told Al Jazeera that, as he understands, the national security advisers of India and Pakistan “are in touch with each other”.

    He said the message being conveyed in news conferences by Indian officials is that “India is committed to peace, but the choice of de-escalation lies with Pakistan. In other words, there is an off-ramp situation here”.

    He added, “Even if you look at the Indian air force briefing, there’s a lot of … operational restraint that is being talked about, and the fact that there is definitely a desire to avoid a wider conflict.

    “India does believe that its actions have been calibrated, have been precise, have been responsible, and it is not designed in any way to escalate the situation, unless Pakistan, you know, sort of seeks that avenue.

    “And if that’s the case, then the Indian response is likely to be firm.”

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