09-18-2008, 09:41 PM
<b>India deploys fighter jets in Kashmir</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The move aims at improving the border management, however analysts told Reuters the move was aimed at Pakistan after relations between the two rivals soured in recent months.
<b>âThis forward movement is part of a deterrence for Pakistan, and to tell them if they fish in troubled waters in Kashmir, India would be ready,â defence analyst Major General Ashok Mehta said.</b> A four-year-old peace process between the two countries has virtually stalled, initially because of political turmoil in Pakistan and more recently after a string of bombings in India, and at the Indian embassy in Kabul.
<b>India blamed Pakistan for the Kabul attack in July â a charge Islamabad denied â saying it had put the peace process in âdistressâ.</b>
Under these circumstances, analysts say, the deployment of six Russian-made Sukhoi-30 jets capable of carrying nuclear warheads in Kashmir was a military move aimed at Pakistan. Indiaâs Western Air Command commander Air Marshal PK Barbora was quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying the deployment was âtemporaryâ.
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<b>âThis forward movement is part of a deterrence for Pakistan, and to tell them if they fish in troubled waters in Kashmir, India would be ready,â defence analyst Major General Ashok Mehta said.</b> A four-year-old peace process between the two countries has virtually stalled, initially because of political turmoil in Pakistan and more recently after a string of bombings in India, and at the Indian embassy in Kabul.
<b>India blamed Pakistan for the Kabul attack in July â a charge Islamabad denied â saying it had put the peace process in âdistressâ.</b>
Under these circumstances, analysts say, the deployment of six Russian-made Sukhoi-30 jets capable of carrying nuclear warheads in Kashmir was a military move aimed at Pakistan. Indiaâs Western Air Command commander Air Marshal PK Barbora was quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying the deployment was âtemporaryâ.
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