{"id":71650,"date":"2025-05-09T00:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/india-pakistan-airstrikes-fear-and-defiance-across-border"},"modified":"2025-05-09T00:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:34:30","slug":"there-will-be-war-fear-and-defiance-across-border-after-indian-airstrikes-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71650","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There will be war\u2019: fear and defiance across border after Indian airstrikes in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As crowds in Pakistan demand response to deadly attack, others fear all-out war with India, where mood also varies<\/p>\n<p>The crowd gathered in an angry frenzy, their slogans ringing out across the streets of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. \u201cThere will be war,\u201d they cried out in unison. \u201cThe war will continue till Kashmir is freed. Till India is destroyed. There will be war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just hours earlier, an alleged Indian drone had crashed amid the food stalls outside the cricket stadium, injuring a passing civilian. It was one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/india-pakistan-kashmir-tensions-airstrike\">at least 25 drones that Pakistan claimed India had sent into Pakistani territory overnight<\/a>, in what they described as \u201canother blatant military act of aggression\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/india-pakistan-airstrikes-fear-and-defiance-across-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As crowds in Pakistan demand response to deadly attack, others fear all-out war with India, where mood also variesThe crowd gathered in an angry frenzy, their slogans ringing out across the streets of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. \u201cThere will be wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4741,"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":[62,60,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-pakistan","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\/71650","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\/4741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71651,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71650\/revisions\/71651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}