Tensions are High between India and Pakistan

Tensions are High between India and Pakistan

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nuclear capabilities, here demonstrated by India
nuclear capabilities, here demonstrated by India

Tensions between Pakistan and India seem to be reaching a new high, this on the background of a Pakistani test-firing of a nuclear capable ballistic missile, as well as Islamabad’s release of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind.

The release of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who stood behind the 2008 attacks, followed nearly four months of wrangling over Lakhvi’s detention after a judge granted him bail in December. Pakistan’s government slapped Lakhvi with a series of detention orders but judges repeatedly canceled them.

In Israel the attacks are best remembered due to the one suffered by the Habad center in the city, when six of its occupants were killed. The total number of people killed during four days of terror, between the 26-29 November 2008, was 164.  Tensions are higher than normal after Pakistani authorities freed, last Friday, on bail, the alleged mastermind of this series of twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks. There is plenty of evidence to attest that this vicious series of terrorists attack were conducted with the support of Pakistan Government’s intelligence agency ISI.

In the meantime Pakistani military reported Pakistan had test-fired, on Wednesday the 15th, a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The Ghauri Ballistic Missile has a range of 1,300 kilometers (807 miles), and can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads. This comes a month after the test-firing of the surface-to-surface nuclear-capable Shaheen III missile, with the much longer range of 2,750 kilometers.”The training launch of the Ghauri missile system was aimed at testing operational and technical readiness,” Defense News quoted the military as saying.

Pakistan and neighboring India — which have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 — have been carrying out missile tests as a routine. Both have first demonstrated nuclear weapons’ capabilities in 1998.

The move to release the Lakhvi was furiously condemned by India and denounced by the United States and France. No denunciation has been made by the Israeli government.