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Tit-perdic hits between India and Pakistan Represent the largest military exchange among nuclear armed neighbors for decades, killing civilians on both sides.

The attacks follow a massacre at the Kashmir controlled by India of 25 tourists and a Kashmiri venue last month that New Delhi was related to the “cross-border” participation of Pakistan, an allegation that Islamabad denies.

The two countries claim that Kashmir and each control part of the region. During the last quarter of a century, a period during which India and Pakistan emerged as nuclear powers, the two countries have faced several times, but military exchanges stopped in a major war.

This has reflected the United States’s desire to pressure diplomats on both sides and Chinese reluctance, as a great international benefactor of Pakistan, to allow the situation to be heated.

It is unclear if any of these conditions are still maintained, according to analysts.

For Pravin Sawney, an defense analyst and former Indian army officer, United States President Donald Trump “has made it very clear” that India and Pakistan “can solve their things themselves and love the two countries.”

The Indian Armed Forces said on Wednesday that they had pointed to nine “terrorist fields” in aerial attacks on the Kashmir administered in Pakistan and some deep within the international limit between India and Pakistan. “The goals were neutralized with clinical efficiency … No military establishments were pointed,” said Vyomika Singh Air Force Commander on Wednesday.

He said that the Indian forces used “niche” technology weapons and carefully chose targets to prevent collateral damage to civilians, but did not elaborate the specific arms or methods used in strikes.

“India has shown considerable tension in its response,” he added. “However, it must be said that the Indian Armades are completely prepared to respond to Pakistani misadventures, if the situation will increase.”

The Pakistani military and diplomatic told the Financial Times that they shot five Indian hunting aircraft during Wednesday clashes, including three French rafings and two Russian planes. The FT could not independently verify the veracity of the claim.

Pakistan’s 660,000 military military is less than half the size of India, and his expense in defense was a tenth of his Eastern neighbor last year, according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.

In part, in reflection of its size, the military doctrine of Islamabad revolves around the “defense, and only the offensive continues if the deterrent fails,” said Raza Muhammad, a retired and diplomatic general.

India, on the contrary, spent $ 74.4 million on defense last year, making it the second largest military budget in Asia after China and the sixth largest in the world.

“The superiority goes out when there is a total struggle. If the Total war is heated, the Indian superiority will come into play and will be very strong,” said the gene Rakesh Sharma, who now distinguished himself in the Vivekananda International Foundation, a New Delhi security thought.

“But in case of limited offensive, they could be close to parity.”

Where both sides are more equal is in nuclear weapons. Both Pakistan and India keep between 160 and 170 nuclear heads in their arsenals, according to the evaluations of the Association of Arms Control.

The Pakistan military work with some Chinese companies to expand the range of their ballistic missiles. India has developed its own intercontinental ballistic missiles: Agni, whose last series has a range of up to 5,000 km.

The weapons supply has been historically used to affirm pressure on the two parties, whose military directors have a line of attention.

During the 1999 Kargil War, the last Great War between the two countries that killed hundreds of soldiers on both sides, the United States stopped supplies of spare parts on both sides, but most of Pakistan’s F-16 fighters. The then President of the United States, Bill Clinton, pushed Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to remove his troops from the Indian territory.

China provided 81 percent of Pakistan’s importance from 2020 to 2024, according to the International Stockholm Peace Research Institute, as Islamabad has moved away from more expensive western suppliers and approached Beijing’s orbit. Most of the hunting hunting fleet and ground attack planes have been developed by or in cooperation with China.

India, which has its own defense industry, operates significant amounts of Russian teams and the two countries cooperate in the development of missiles. More recently imported teams from the United States and France, according to the IISS, and Trump has been pressing modi to buy more American manufacturing weapons.

North -American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said on Wednesday that “he will continue to involve both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution.”

The Chinese government, called a friend of Ironclad of Islamabad, has urged the containment of both parties. Despite Beijing’s close bonds with Islamabad, analysts say that he may not want to endanger an approach to India after his recent resolution of a four -year lounge on a played border.

On Wednesday, China, which borders both countries, said that India’s military operation was “unfortunate” and urged the two parties to hold the containment.

“The Chinese have been developing a relationship with India for the last six months. With the Wars of Commerce and Rates now, China seeks to use India as Gran Economic Via to get out of economic problems caused by the North -Americans,” said Sharma.

Support for Pakistan could present -in any way, “which does not directly involve the Chinese.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi made it clear by Pakistan Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, last month, that “China fully understands the legitimate Pakistan security concerns and supports Pakistan to safeguard its sovereignty and security interests.”

Asked about the strikes, President Trump said, “I hope it ends very quickly.”

But India’s Chief of Staff, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, told X after Wednesday’s strikes: “There is more to come.”