After months of calm sharply strained relations between India and Pakistan. A fragile truce has been violated by the terrorist attack in Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir which killed five Indian soldiers, including two officers. The Indian army suffered the most serious losses after last year’s terrorist attack in Kashmir, which new Delhi and Islamabad was on the verge of a new war. In response, the Indian security forces on Tuesday evening launched an operation to dismantle a network of leaders operating in the region of the terrorist organization “Hizb-ul-Mujahideen” supported by Pakistan. Against this background, the Islamabad tries to return to the world agenda of the “Kashmir problem”, departed on the second plan on the background of the pandemic coronavirus.As reported on Wednesday leading the Indian media, Indian army and police deployed in the border with Pakistan, Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir an operation to capture one of the leaders of the terrorist organization “Hizb-ul-Mujahideen” allowed him to Nike, whose head was a reward of 1.2 million rupees (about $16 million). The operation began on Tuesday evening after security forces received information about the presence of Nike in the Riyaz area of the city Pullam.In turn, the Times of India newspaper, citing sources, reports that Riyaz Nike, for which the Indian security forces hunted for eight years, was found and killed on Wednesday in a village near Pulwama Bahpora along with two other field commanders “of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen”. Official confirmation of this information has yet been received.Operations of the Indian security forces to eliminate the Riyaz Nike — one of the most prominent leaders of the movement for “freedom of Kashmir”, was preceded by fierce clash of the special forces of the Indian army with the militants, in which last Sunday in the district of Pulwama was killed five soldiers, including two senior officers.The incident in Pulwama have occurred in the course of the operation to release hostages kept barricaded in one of houses of the militants.”The terrorists opened fire on the soldiers. In the ensuing firefight, which lasted several hours, killing a Colonel, a major and three soldiers. Was eliminated two terrorists, their personality is set. The hostages released,” said a police spokesman.In response to the largest terrorist attack in recent years fighter aircraft of the Indian air force “Mirage 2000” then crossed the line of control in divided between India and Pakistan is Kashmir and destroyed the camp of the terrorist group “Jaish-e-Muhammad”. It was the first such RAID after the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971.New clash in Pulwama was the largest incident in the region since August last year, the President of India, RAM Nath, Govind canceled 370 article of the Constitution, which enshrines the special status of the area populated mainly by Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir, equating it to other regions of the country. Explaining this decision, which caused outrage in Islamabad and his call to convene an emergency UN meeting, the Indian side insisted that the old status of Kashmir did not allow to effectively develop the region and to fight against separatist groups.Recall that the special status of Kashmir, which had remained unchanged for decades until last August, was the result of agreements reached shortly after India’s independence in August 1947. The then ruler of the Principality of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Hari Singh signed the agreement on joining areas in India with a bargained for from the Indian government and a number of special privileges to his Principality.Read dalesplace, even then, the parties agreed that the special status of Jammu and Kashira will be “temporary in nature”, without specifying how long it will exist.Meanwhile, the situation in Indian Kashmir shows that after a winter lull, when news of the clashes did not allow heavy snow and harsh weather conditions, the conflict Delhi and Islamabad again “unfrozen.” Since March, skirmishes on the line of separation of the parties with heavy mortars and artillery are almost a daily occurrence and are accompanied with diplomatic moves on both sides.Last Saturday the foreign Ministry of Pakistan said that this year the Indian side had violated since 2003 along the line of differentiation of the parties to the ceasefire 940 times. In turn, new Delhi has made Islamabad an even more impressive list of violations. According to the Indian officials, only one week Mar Pakistan violated the ceasefire regime more than 800 times.So, in April, the leadership of the Indian army accused Pakistani intelligence agencies of hacking attack on Indian soldiers by hacking their phones and spread fake mobile apps similar to the app AarogyaSetu.App AarogyaSetu was established by the Indian government for use by civil servants in order to facilitate the work of checking the spread COVID-19. In connection with the attack of the Pakistani intelligence services, the army leadership has called for Indian soldiers to download the app AarogyaSetu only from the government of India. And the chief of the Indian army Manoj Mukund Naravane said that “while India is busy fighting with the coronavirus in the country and at the global level, Pakistan is busy exporting terrorism to India and other countries.”Against this background, a new destabilizing factor was the decision of the Supreme court of Pakistan to hold elections to the Assembly G��of lgit-Baltistan territory of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan. Thus Islamabad has again made it clear that the pandemic coronavirus will not stop his determination to return to the global agenda “the Kashmir problem”, in recent months, departed on the second plan.In connection with the decision of the Supreme court of Pakistan foreign Minister of India on Monday issued a statement that “all Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including areas of Gilgit and Baltistan are an integral part of India due to its completely legitimate and irrevocable joining.” “India firmly rejects such actions. Instead, Pakistan should immediately release all the areas under its illegal occupation,” said the Indian diplomatic office.Sergey Strokan
