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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Abid Hussain

‘Slippery slope’: How will Pakistan strike India as tensions soar?

A boy collects papers from the debris of a residential house damaged by cross-border shelling in Gingal village near the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan, in Indian-administered Kashmir's Baramulla district on May 9, 2025 [Stringer/Reuters]

Islamabad, Pakistan – On Wednesday evening, as Pakistan grappled with the aftermath of a wave of missile strikes from India that hit at least six cities, killing 31 people, the country’s military spokesperson took to a microphone with a chilling warning.

“When Pakistan strikes India, it will come at a time and place of its own choosing,” Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a media briefing. “The whole world will come to know, and its reverberation will be heard everywhere.”

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