2008 India Pakistan standoff
| 2008 India–Pakistan standoff | |||||||
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| Part of Indo-Pakistan Cold war | |||||||
 Map of Indian subcontinent |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Manmohan Singh(Prime minister of India) Pratibha Patil(President of India) Pranab Mukherjee(Minister of External Affairs)  Gen. Deepak Kapoor(Chief of Army Staff)  ACM Fali Homi Major(Chief of Air Staff)  Adm. Sureesh Mehta(Chief of Naval Staff) |
 Yousaf Gillani(Prime minister of Pakistan)  Asif Ali Zardari(President of Pakistan) Ahmad Mukhtar(Defence Minister of Pakistan)  Gen Tariq Majid(Chairman Joint Chiefs) Gen. Ishfaq Kayani(Chief of Army Staff)  ACM Tanvir Ahmad(Chief of Air Staff)  Adm. Noman Bashir(Chief of Naval Staff) Adm. Asaf Humayun(Commandant Marines) |
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After the 2008 Mumbai attacks,Pakistan and the ISI were believed by India to be directly responsible behind the attacks, leading to strained relations between the two countries for a period of time. An anti-Pakistan sentiment also rose in India, causing many, including even the United States to call for probes into it.
The standoff was significant because both these countries were nuclear nations, having first successfully tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998 respectively. The countries had already participated in 4 wars since their partition and independence in 1947, and relations between the two nations have been strained throughout their histories. The lone surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks confirmed that the terrorists came from Pakistan, and that they were trained by Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives. In 2011, he also confessed that the ISI had been supporting them throughout the attacks.
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