The Pakistani army used mortars and other artillery to shell Indian army bases and civilians. Subsequently, the Indian army responded with heavy weapons including artillery, and several military bunkers, powder depots and launch pads of the Pakistani army were destroyed.
Judging from the live footage exposed by some media, civilian houses near the firefighting site fell into flames and collapsed. A large number of people fled for their lives. Cries were heard everywhere, which shows the fierce and cruel artillery battle. Residents near said that the artillery battle lasted from the morning until late at night.
has been officially confirmed by India and Pakistan that the unprecedented artillery battle has caused at least 14 deaths and dozens of injuries on both sides, including an 8-year-old boy. Among them, 5 people were killed in Pakistan and 31 were injured. Due to years of conflict and wars near the actual control line in Kashmir, the lives of residents in the area have been quite difficult. Now there is another large-scale artillery battle, coupled with the impact of the new crown epidemic, making the situation of local residents even worse.
Regarding the cause of this large-scale artillery battle, both India and Pakistan "said the public to be reasonable, and the mother-in-law said the mother-to-law is reasonable." According to official Indian statistics, as of August 31 this year, India and Pakistan had broken out more than 240 military conflicts near the line of control in Kashmir. The artillery battle that took place on November 13 was the largest and most intense conflict between the two sides in months.
However, if an artillery battle of this scale is placed in the decades-long history of struggle between India and Pakistan, it would be only an extremely common exchange of fire. Since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both countries have declared absolute sovereignty over the Kashmir region. Judging from the current situation, India occupies most of Kashmir, but the majority of the local people in Kashmir hope to be under Pakistan's jurisdiction.
In order to fight for control of Kashmir, India and Pakistan have fought two large-scale wars. In 2003, under the active mediation of the international community, India and Pakistan signed an India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement and decided to stop military conflicts near the line of actual control in Kashmir. Although no major war broke out between the two sides since then, small-scale military conflicts have never stopped.
In the decades of exchange of fire between India and Pakistan, they have gradually become enemies that are like water and fire. The conflict between the two sides has expanded from the territorial dispute in Kashmir to other aspects. The India-Pakistan predicament has become deeply entrenched and has become difficult to reconcile. Even the ceasefire agreement reached between the two parties has almost become a piece of waste paper and has no binding force on both parties.
At the UN General Assembly’s Disarmament and International Security Committee held in October this year, Pakistan’s representative Akram stated that in 2019, the Indian army violated the India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement more than 3,000 times. This year, the number of violations of the ceasefire agreement has exceeded 2,400.
It is not difficult to see from the speech of the representative of Pakistan that India's unilateral provocation by virtue of its strength advantage is the main reason for the current tension between India and Pakistan. In addition to fighting Pakistan, India is currently confronting China and Nepal. It can be said that India has almost offended its "land neighbors".
