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Today we're speaking to Uday Bakshi.

He is an excellent researcher. He's going to be talking to us about the recent flare-up in what is frankly a protracted war between India and Pakistan.

Rocket fire, jet shooting jets down, very bad situation. One of the hardest things about it though is the absolute avalanche of misinformation from both sides both officially and on social media

Uday is going to help us understand that and explain what has actually happened

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I think the first thing we should do is maybe just explain what has actually happened.

From my perspective, it's in some ways worse than it seems and also not as bad as it seems in in different ways it's already quite confusing and splinted maybe we should just explain what has actually

happened in the last like 10 days between india and pakistan uh so let's go back a little more

than 10 days maybe jake um so the current, I mean, tensions and cycle of violence really kicked off.

And this is only this cycle of violence.

This is not the first one.

This won't be the last one.

As you said, things are kind of settling down.

But on April 22nd, there was a massive terrorist attack in Pelagam in

Kashmir in India. 24, 28 tourists were killed, if I'm not wrong, and dozens more were injured.

And this basically set off the conflict that we saw over the last few days.

So initially what happened after the terrorist attack was that India and Pakistan started

sending more forces to the border.

There was more aerial patrols and everyone was on a higher alert.

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