US cybersecurity firm Recorded Future's report says hacker group targeted Indian establishments for six months while border tensions between India, China were high. New Delhi: A Chinese state-backed hacker group is targeting Indian defence research and other Indian organisations, according to the latest research from an American cybersecurity firm. In a report released on 16 June, cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, headquartered near Boston, said it found links between a “suspected” Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group and the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 69010, a Chinese military intelligence unit. The unit (69010) also likely has multiple subordinate offices primarily responsible for monitoring military activity along China’s western border,” the report said. Recorded Future has nicknamed the hacker group ‘RedFoxtrot’. The same cybersecurity firm had in March said another China-linked hacker group, nicknamed ‘RedEcho’, was targeting India’s pow...
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948, sometimes known as the First Kashmir War, was an armed conflict that was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistani wars that was fought between the two newly-independent nations. Pakistan precipitated the war a few weeks after its independence by launching tribal lashkar (militias) from Waziristan,] in an effort to capture Kashmir, the future of which hung in the balance. The inconclusive result of the war still affects the geopolitics of both countries.
Indian (top) and Pakistani (bottom) soldiers during the 1947–1948 warDate22 October 1947 – 5 January 1949
(1 year, 2 months and 2 weeks)Location
Jammu and Kashmir
Result
United Nations-mandated ceasefire
Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir acceded to the Dominion of India
Adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 47
Establishment of the UN Ceasefire Line of 1949 (later designated as the Line of Control after the Simla Agreement of 1972)
Territorial
changesPakistan controls roughly a third of Kashmir (Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan), whereas India controls the rest (Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Ladakh)
Hari Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, was facing an uprising by his Muslim subjects in Poonch, and lost control of the western districts of his kingdom. On 22 October 1947, Pakistan's Pashtun militias crossed the border of the state.[28][29] These local tribal militias and irregular Pakistani forces moved to take the capital city of Srinagar, but upon reaching Baramulla, they took to plunder and stalled. Maharaja Hari Singh made a plea to India for assistance, and help was offered, but it was subject to his signing of an Instrument of Accession to India.[29]
The war was initially fought by the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces[30][31] and by militias from the Frontier Tribal Areas adjoining the North-West Frontier Province.[32] Following the accession of the state to India on 26 October 1947, Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar, the state capital. British commanding officers initially refused the entry of Pakistani troops into the conflict, citing the accession of the state to India.[29] However, later in 1948, they relented and Pakistan's armies entered the war shortly afterwards.[32] The fronts solidified gradually along what later came to be known as the Line of Control. A formal ceasefire was declared at 23:59 on the night of 31 December 1948 and became effective on the night of 1 January 1949.[33] The result of the war was inconclusive. However, most neutral assessments agree that India was the victor of the war as it was able to successfully defend[34] about two-thirds of the erstwhile princely state, including the Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Ladakh
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