Pakistan Says Indian Fighter Jets Briefly Entered Its Airspace

Indian fighter jets take part in a mock exercise at the Indian Air Force Station in Gwalior. (File photo)

Pakistan Claims Indian Fighter Jets Enter Its Airspace -- Economic Times

LAHORE: Pakistani officials today alleged that two Indian fighter jets entered seven kilometres into the country's airspace over Punjab province.

They said the incident occurred over Pakpattan district, 200-km from the provincial capital of Lahore.

The officials alleged the jets remained in Pakistani airspace for over one minute.

IAF sources in Delhi, however, rejected the claim saying, "Our pilots did not cross the border".

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More News On Pakistani Reports That Indian Fighters Entered Its Airspace

'IAF aircraft seem to have flown close to the border with Pakistan', clarifies India -- Business Insider/ANI
Pakistan says 2 Indian planes violated its airspace, prompting it to dispatch fighter jets -- Washington Post/AP
Pakistan Says Indian Jets Violate Air Space -- Voice of America
Pakistan Says Indian Jets Briefly Violate Airspace -- Radio Free Europe
Pakistan accuses India of violating airspace -- Gulf News

Pakistan, India Hold Talks OnThe Siachen Glacier Dispute

Pakistan, India Hold Talks On 'World's Highest Battlefield' -- Voice of America

Pakistan and India are holding talks on whether to demilitarize the Siachen glacier, known as the world's highest battlefield.

​​The two-day meeting that began Monday in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi is the 13th round of talks and the first time both sides have met on the issue since April, when an avalanche buried 140 Pakistani troops and staff stationed at a Siachen base. The site is located at an altitude of 4,000 meters and is just a few kilometers away from Indian outposts.

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More News On India - Pakistan Talks To Resolve The Siachen Glacier Dispute

India and Pakistan hold Siachen glacier talks -- BBC
India, Pakistan in talks on disputed glacier -- AFP
India and Pakistan reopen talks over world's highest battlefield -- Deutsche Welle
India, Pakistan begin Siachen talks -- Times of India/Press Trust India
India, Pakistan Talk Demilitarization of Siachen Glacier -- 2point6billion.com
Should Siachen be Demilitarized? -- Heather Timmons, New York Times
In pictures: Siachen, the world's highest battlefield -- BBC

India - Pakistan Border Is So Brightly Lit It Can Be Seen From Space

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Spectacular: The International Space Station image captures the floodlit border between India, above the orange line, and Pakistan, below the border in the picture

Whose Bright Idea Was That? Border Between India And Pakistan Is So Brightly Lit It Can Be Seen From Space -- Daily Mail

Snaking for hundreds of miles across the earth's surface, this spectacular picture shows one of the planet's land borders like never before.

The dramatic picture shows a bright orange line jutting across the earth, indicating the border between India and Pakistan.

The stunning image of the earth, taken from the International Space Station last month, also shows busy cities show up as bright clusters hundreds of miles apart.

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My Comment: It must be working .... cross border raids from Pakistan into India have dropped appreciably in the past few years, all be it that the peace can be broken at any time.

At War Level: India Raises Security Status Amid Grief

Indian soldiers (Photo from Military Photos)

From The Guardian:

Fallout from Mumbai attacks jeopardises south Asian peace process

The Indian government raised the country's security to a "war level" yesterday saying it had certain proof of a Pakistani link to the Mumbai attacks.

The dramatic move prompted Pakistan to say it would end military operations against Islamist militants on the Afghan border, which are critical to the "war on terror", for an "unwanted conflict" with Delhi.

With bodies being pulled from the Taj Mahal hotel, where gunmen had made their last stand after a rampage that left more than 170 dead, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, India's minister of state for home affairs, said the country's "intelligence will be increased to a war level, we are asking the state governments to increase security to a war level". The Press Trust of India, India's official news agency also reported that the government was considering suspending the four-year-old peace process with its neighbour.

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'Pak May Relocate 100,000 Army Personnel To Border'

From Rediff India Abroad:

Pakistan may relocate around 100,000 military personnel from its restive border area with Afghanistan if there is an escalation in tension with India,which has hinted at the involvement of Pakistani elements in the Mumbai carnage, a media report said today.

Private channel Geo News reported that Pakistan's military and intelligence sources told a select group of journalists today that NATO and American command had been told
that Islamabad would be forced to relocate its military from the borders with Afghanistan if there is escalation in tension with India, where nearly 200 people were killed in the multiple terror attacks on the Indian financial capital.

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My Comment: the Taliban and Al Qaeda are the only two groups that will benefit from this relocation of resources.

India Pakistan Border Tensions

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India, Pakistan Discuss Kashmir Border Firings -- AFP

NEW DELHI (AFP) — India's top security officials urged their Pakistani counterparts on Monday to put a stop to ceasefire violations along their shared border in the disputed Kashmir region.

The officials met in the Indian capital on security issues including the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul in July which killed 41 people.

New Delhi blames the bombing, whose victims included two Indian diplomats, on Pakistan's military intelligence agency.

"We will discuss all the issues that concern us," Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said as Pakistan's National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani held talks with his Indian counterpart M.K. Narayanan.

"Let us see what we can take forward," Menon added.

India also claims Pakistan supports an Islamic insurgency in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, the trigger for two of the three wars between the nations since their independence from British rule in 1947.

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My Comment: The ceasefire violations will continue .... Pakistan has more pressing problems internally that are more important to them than addressing India's concerns about cross border shootings.

This Bit Of News Is Not Going To Help the Peace Process On Kashmir

As Delhi Bled, Pak Fires On Indian Troops Across LoC -- The Times Of India

NEW DELHI: As New Delhi bled on Saturday evening, Pakistani army rangers allegedly violated the ceasefire agreement with the specific purpose of pushing in militants across the Line of Control (LoC).

Times Now has learnt that while New Delhi was reeling from the aftershocks of the deadly serial blasts, Pakistani troops were pushing in militants into India.

The violations took place between eight in the evening and ten-thirty in the night when the attention of the countries entire leadership was on containing the fallout of the Delhi serial blasts. According to highly placed military sources, Pakistani troops provided 'cover firing’ to infiltrate militants in Mendhar and Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch.

Pakistan firing was also reported from Druchian posts and Rashid post. This is the 31st incident of firing from the Pakistan side in last 4 months.

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My Comment: This episode not only clearly reveals how much both sides do not trust each other .... but it also reveals a deep sentiment of hate and a need to fight and kill. The LoC is one of the poisonous parts of the world.