{"id":71580,"date":"2025-05-07T13:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/kashmir-border-residents-india-attack-pakistan-line-of-control"},"modified":"2025-05-08T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:30:39","slug":"like-powerful-thunder-panic-in-kashmirs-border-villages-as-long-feared-strikes-finally-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71580","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I hope we survive this hell tonight\u2019: People in Kashmiri border villages fear more strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents on both sides had been preparing for violence for days. It came in the middle of the night, with the whistle of missiles overhead<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/06\/pakistan-vows-to-retaliate-after-wave-of-indian-missiles-hit-country\">Full report: Pakistan decries \u2018act of war\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/may\/06\/pakistan-india-attacks-kashmir-live-updates\">Live coverage: deadly Indian missile attack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For days, residents living on both sides of the volatile border between India and Pakistan dividing the disputed region of Kashmir had been bracing themselves for war.<\/p>\n<p>After India accused Pakistan of involvement in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/22\/tourists-killed-by-suspected-militants-in-kashmir-attack\">terrorist attack that killed 26 people<\/a>, and vowed to retaliate with military might, local residents knew a confrontation between the two countries could take place at any moment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/kashmir-border-residents-india-attack-pakistan-line-of-control\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents on both sides had been preparing for violence for days. It came in the middle of the night, with the whistle of missiles overheadFull report: Pakistan decries \u2018act of war\u2019Live coverage: deadly Indian missile attackFor days, residents living o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71626,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71580\/revisions\/71626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}