Sounds like it's getting sporty over there.

Not sure what you’re talking about. I know they are into cricket, and that’s a sport.

Sporty as in military combat, they're going at each other pretty hard....Both countries are nuclear powers.

They've had long standing feud over the Kashmir region. Long history going back pre British Raj and partition also includes sectarian Muslim vs Hindu, guess which side is the nasty one, while Kashmir itself represents third party Sikh.

To compound things the Kashmir western border is the Indus River, sacred to both sides, and the source of 90% of Pakistan's water. Less so on India's side but they do rely heavily on it, mostly hydroelectric.

The latest latest uproar was triggered by an attack on Hindu tourists in Kashmir by Islamic terrorists, who'd a thunk it, based out of Pakistan.

India claims to have pre-emptively taken out several "terrorist sites" in Pakistan. Pakistan has vowed revenge.

The unknown known is that both nations have nukes. Will their little spat go nuclear?

Oh, and India's other neighbor to the north, China, makes some claims on parts of Kashmir as well. They've also had a recent border spat with India and came up short.

Heard about the India/China border spat...India is the only country with more people than China I believe.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine!!!!

Both these countries have nukes I believe?

The Indians and Pakistanis in Canada and Great Britain have been fighting each other off and on since last year. There's a lot of concern that an actual war between India and Pakistan will lead to major violence between them in the Western countries they are colonizing.

Keith

I smell bacon bombs in the cooking….l

Bacon and beef, got to have equity don't you know.

That'll learn them.

I don't follow it, but last I heard was that the US gives Pakistan ALOT of money.

A few more odd and ends. Kashmir historically is more of an autonomous region within the Raj being ethnically and religiously distinct from the Hindus and Muslims. Some historians claim the area reflects the remnants of Greek culture from the time of Alexander. During the time of the Raj Kashmir retained autonomy as a princely state ruled by a maharaji vassal to the British empire and was one of if not the last to be be incorporated into India post partition.

Pakistan represents the most radical and fundamentalist Islamic elements of the old Indian state that chose to separate post independence, the partition. Hundreds of thousands died during partition. India still retains a large population of Muslims, larger than the total population of Pakistan, as their second most numerous religious group behind Hindus. Pakistan also has another issue with their own Pashtun population many of which are afghans thanks to the decades of war to the north. Many of those are even too radical for the Muslims in charge of Pakistan.

Solomon was supposed to be a man of wisdom. In the process he married more foreign wives. He got bigger but not better.

I was surprised to learn that India was in the top 10 of countries that are hostile to Christians.

There goes our tech support.....

I always hoped they'd each drop a nuke on the others scam call centers...

hahahahaha
Darn the luck

Maybe our Hindu 2nd Lady can help bridge the gap?