Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged gunfire and mortar
rounds over the territorial lines dividing the two countries. At least 12
people have been injured including innocent women and children. Both sides,
India and Pakistan, blame each other for the escalation in the conflict. Each
of the countries is nuclear-armed and has a very long history for always having
animosity. A retired Indian diplomat feels that the violence and the rising
tensions between the two countries could be an attempt to draw international
attention to the conflict. There has been an increase in cross-border attacks
in both countries. The latest violence was between India and Pakistan in the
Jammu and Kashmir region along the Indian and Pakistani border. There were
reports of gunfire at a dozen of the posts along the border and was a violation
of the cease-fire. In 1948, the cease-fire line was created to split control
over the region and is now called the “line of control”. An estimated 68,000
people have been killed in this conflict.
With each country being nuclear-armed, this conflict is a
huge social problem not only for India and Pakistan, but is an international
social problem. As of now, the two countries are only using small arms in the
conflict but it has potential to reach a point where weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) and nuclear arms could be used. This is an issue of state terror because
it involves a cycle of revolutionary terror between two countries. This terror,
has stated by a retired Indian diplomat, may be an attempt to grab headlines
and command attention. That is the power of terror. Innocent lives may be lost
in order to gain international attention to a pressing issue in a country.
Ashley Moore
Blog 7
10/25/2013
11:53 am
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/25/kashmir-tensionsriseasindiapakistanexchangegunfireoverborder.html
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