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2025-05-12 India-Pakistan
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India caught off guard by Pakistan''s hardware, technical edge: UK expert
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[GEO.TV] British security and defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke remarked on Saturday that Pakistain may have caught India off guard with the strength of its military hardware and technical capabilities, The News reported, citing Sky News.
In an interview with British news outlet, Clarke stated that India would likely view Pakistain's display of strength as a sign of risk-taking.
''The Indians might have been surprised by the hardware that the Paks brought to bear,'' he said, ''because as we're now discovering they've used quite a lot of their Chinese-based technology, and the attention at the moment is focused on the J-10 fighter.''
Clarke added that it appeared one of Pakistain's J-10 jets may have downed a Rafale, one of the French-made fighter aircraft in India's arsenal. ''And undoubtedly,'' he continued, ''the Paks have used their HQ-9, anti-aircraft missiles, which again may have been rather effective.''
''So I think the Indians might have been surprised by the technical abilities that Pakistain seems to have absorbed with their Chinese equipment, but they won't have been surprised by the bellicosity of [Gen Asim] Munir because they rather expected that,'' he further added.
He also said that partly, India's response has been to try to, as it were, teach (Gen) Munir a lesson that they really are prepared to do whatever it takes, and indeed they've deployed a carrier battle group of their Western fleet.
''It's sitting only 300 miles off Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, which is a sort of threat to go in for a more general war, unless the Paks found a way of backing down from this position. Unfortunately, the international community has given them a line that they can both top out at.''
He said both sides have agreed to a ceasefire which has been pushed so hard and, to its credit, by the Trump administration and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
 ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
. However,
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he said, they (the US administration) were rather late in getting on this, as this thing had been going on since Tuesday but now it seems their words have made a difference.
US President Donald Trump
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said on Saturday that India and Pakistain had agreed to a "full and immediate ceasefire" after a fourth day of strikes and counter-strikes against each other's military installations.
Pakistain's foreign minister also said both countries had agreed to a ceasefire "with immediate effect" and India's foreign ministry said it would start at 5pm Indian time (1130 GMT). 
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