Global SITREP A9-19: India and Pakistan

Indian Nuclear Missile

1 March 2019: The standoff between India and Pakistan continues. Ceasefire violations across the LoC from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir occur with some regularity. Most recent occurred an hour ago. The Pakistani gesture of releasing the captured Indian pilot appears to be taking place at this time (06:50 EST).

Indian Army Pinaka 214mm Multiple Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL)

18:40 PM EST and the escalation of "high intensity" military action continues unabated. Guided anti-tank missiles, Indian Pinaka 214mm MBRL, 155mm heavy artillery and snipers are apparently "weapons free" - that is, no targets are off limits. This includes hospitals, schools, civilian homes, businesses. Casualties rising exponentially. If this isn't full-scale conventional war, I don't know what is.

27 February 2019: There are millions of people in Pakistani and Indian cities who are trying to stifle tangible fears with the hope that military deconfliction and de-escalation back from the brink of a full-scale war which with little warning could become the world's first nuclear exchange between neighboring nations. 

India and Pakistan are both rushing troops, heavy armor and artillery to the flash point Line-of-Control (LoC) in the formly princely state of Jammu and Kashmir (JK). Fighter aircraft from both nations are flying combat air patrols (CAP) non-stop along their common border and the JK LoC. Most reports have it that India has lost two aircraft and Pakistan one aircraft in hostile actions.

Pakistani PM Imran Khan made an overture to India to "sit down and talk about our problems," but at the same time made clear that a failure to do so risks an escalation the the nuclear threshold. Indian PM Narendra Modi earlier today gave his military commanders clearance to proceed with the course of action they believe is necessary because Pakistan has refused to take "credible action against terrorist entities and individuals operating from its soil," and instead has "acted with aggression against India.

Indeed, the fighting between the military forces of India and Pakistan is the direct result of a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist VBIED bombing on 14 February which killed 45 and wounded more than 35 Indian paramilitary officers in Pulwama, Indian Kashmir. India subsequently retaliated on 26 February with a dozen Mirage 2000 strike aircraft destroying the JeM training camp in Balakot, Pakistani Kashmir and two other camps nearby. India struck a non-military terrorist target that was well removed from the Pakistani population. This was clearly lost on the Pakistani leadership.

The JeM is believed by the intelligence agencies of many nations around the world to be the creation of Pakistan's intelligence service, known as the ISI, and therefore Pakistan is directly responsible for all JeM attacks against India. There have been over 3,800 terrorist attacks in India since 2015. Clearly, India and its 1.35 billion people has had enough of the terrorism coming from Pakistan and its 203 million people. Pakistan's leadership had better do the math.

While there is nothing in Scripture about this ongoing conflict, or the several other India-Pakistan clashes that have occurred in the past 70 years, we do know that during the 70th Week a truly immense army to 200 million troops will march towards the Middle East, killing 2.5 billion of the world's population, in making war on the Antichrist and his beast empire (Daniel 11:44 and Revelation 9:13-19 and 16:12.) 

Note this, there are more nations with nuclear weapons in the east (Russia, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan) expressing a desire to use them as there are in the west (US, UK, France and Israel). It may well be, in fact I believe it is a fact, that we are witnessing the rise of the kings of the east. If nothing else, the timing of this India-Pakistan war and its very real potential for nuclear escalation is no mere coincidence.