3 h. ago Kashmir crisis live: Pakistan and India accuse each other of striking military bases in major escalation

‘Multiple locations’ in India being targeted in retaliatory attacks, says state-run media, after Pakistan says three air bases attacked by Indian missilesFull report: Pakistan says it has hit back after India strikes military basesWho is Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan’s military amid the crisis with India?The general once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government and supreme court, as our profile here says.Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.Since Gen Munir took over as Pakistan’s army chief more than two years ago, he has been accused of quietly consolidating greater power without even having to topple the country’s civilian rulers. As he kept himself largely out of the limelight, he consolidated an iron grip over the army’s ranks and ben...

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4 h. ago Pakistan launches missile strikes as India hits back with raids on military bases in deepening conflict between nuclear

It's the latest escalation in a conflict triggered by a massacre last month that India blames on Pakistan.

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3 d. ago India launches missile strikes on Pakistan 'terrorist camps' as tensions between nuclear powers escalate

The strikes were ordered after last month's deadly attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir

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3 d. ago India attacks Pakistan with air strikes: Nine 'terrorist camps' hit as Karachi threatens to retaliate

The Indian armed forces have confirmed striking nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.

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3 d. ago India launches missile strikes on Pakistan. What we know so far

Indian armed forces say they launched ‘Operation Sindoor’

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3 d. ago India fires missiles at Pakistan and disputed Kashmir region as WW3 fears grow

Indian forces launched several missiles at neighbouring Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region, stoking fears the conflict could escalate into a World War 3 scenario

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