India and Pakistan: vast nuclear-armed military forces
New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2025 Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have exchanged gunfire across their heavily militarised de facto border in contested Kashmir since an April 22 attack that New Delhi blames on Islamabad, claims it rejects. Troops are facing off along the 770-kilometre (478-mile) fortified Line of Control - the route of a ceasefire line dating back to 1949 - which ranges from icy outposts in high-alt

