The Pakistan-India conflict is one of the hardest to report on. The amount of misinformation is insane even when there’s no active fighting, their media spreads fake or twisted narratives. Independent voices are rare, and censorship is massive.
India just issued an Executive Order to Social Media giant "X" ordering them to make ~8,000 accounts unavailable in India! X was warned they would be fined, and their local employees inside India ARRESTED if the order was not implemented immediately!
Strangely, that same Social media outlet (X) was previously unavailable inside Pakistan, but that ban has been LIFTED by Pakistan.
So India, often touted as a "Democracy," has imposed crushing media censorship, while Pakistan has opened up the information.
The situation has already risen to the point where I have to take everything I see, photos, videos, statements from officials, with a huge grain of salt. Behind the scenes, very many INTEL assets and analysts are working to verify stuff, and even they struggle. That’s how deep the fog of dis-info is already running in this conflict.
The worst part? Misinformation isn’t just online; it fuels real-life hate, violence, and nationalist hysteria. People suffer while the truth gets buried. So if my reporting on this has been less saturated than commonplace in such situations, these are the reasons why.
India has ORDERED all hospitals in and north of Chandigarh on high alert and have all doctors and nurses available 24/7. Here is the ORDER sent to Chandigarh:
Pakistan put all health care centers on high alerts. All private offices have been directed to have drills for employees how to evacuate in emergency. Leaves of all security personnel, medical staffers & government officers have been cancelled.
The troubles taking place are NOT limited to Jammu and Kashmir. Missiles and Drones are being launched by both sides, against targets and population centers hundreds of miles away.
The chart below lays out the VERIFIED actions by each side, and proves how wide an area is now involved in hostilities (Click Image TWICE to enlarge to full):
There have been deaths on both sides, both civilian and military. Numbers are almost impossible to verify right now.
There are reports - from both sides - saying that military troops of the "enemy" have been captured. NONE of these claims is presently verifiable.
The conflict is significantly escalating - and fast. This has now shifted from a series of tit-for-tat responses, to likely the beginning of one of the largest conflicts between India and Pakistan since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. We are rapidly approaching the “point of no return” with regard to a possible full-scale war in Southern Asia.
Officials in India have now been told to NOT TALK TO MEDIA.
Media Outlets in India have been told NOT TO REPORT on successful attacks within their own country.
The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan has issued the following Shelter-In-Place Order to Americans:
Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority has suspended all national & international flight operations at all airports.
Too much talk of "nuclear" already
On Social Media and on vlogs, in both India and Pakistan, there is already far too much loose talk about using nuclear weapons. It's as if the folks in these two countries are not fully aware of what horrors such an action would bring.
Today, though, Officials in government are now alluding to the use of nuclear weapons:
"I want to assure, which India also knows, that when Pakistan will strike at a time and place of our choosing, then you and me will not know it through Indian media, the whole world will know, the reverberations will be felt everywhere", says Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif, DG ISPR.
So this conflict is growing worse on every imaginable level. Cooler heads are not only failing to prevail, they're nowhere in sight! This thing is getting way ugly, way fast.
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UPDATE 6:16 PM EDT --
-- Pakistan launches massive drone attack on multiple Indian targets. Hundreds of drones are currently headed towards targets. Indian air defense systems completely jammed.
-- Pakistani Defense Minister to Al Jazeera: The situation appears to be heading toward a confrontation between the two armies.
-- The Pakistani Armed Forces announced this morning that it has so far downed at least 25 Israeli-produced “Harop” one-way attack drones launched by India against military sites in Eastern Pakistan. The drones are claimed to have been downed using a combination of soft-kill methods such as jamming, and hard-kill methods such as anti-air guns and surface-to-air missiles, with Pakistan vowing to respond to this escalation by India.
UPDATE 6:24 PM EDT --
-- CONFIRMED: Multiple cities in India now under attack by Pakistani drones
-- Very very intense INDIA AIR FORCE (IAF) activity being reported from multiple sectors along Indo-Pak front.
-- Pakistan Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon shot down by Indian air defense interceptor during combat air patrol INSIDE ITS OWN COUNTRY (PAKISTAN) near the international border.
-- Whole of Indian Kashmir is now under a blackout.
FLASH TRAFFIC 6:47 PM EDT --
Turkey has initiated a military assistance program for Pakistan amid rising tensions with India.
Turkey has reportedly sent its most advanced warships to Pakistan, potentially for use in a conflict with India.
A fleet of 26 Indian ships are closing in on Karachi. There are Turkish and also Chinese ships there on Pakistan's side ... this could get VERY interesting.
US Vice President JD Vance says "We’re not going to get involved in the middle of war that’s fundamentally none of our business.."
(Hal Turner Remark: Getting out of control; one mistake and it's boom!)
