India-Pakistan conflict: Nervous calm as Pakistan fears war within days


Residents gathering as police personnel inspect a site cordoned off with barricade tapes after an alleged drone was shot down in Karachi on May 8. - AFP

KARACHI: There is a deceptive calm in Pakistan’s main cities. Even as 25 Indian drones penetrated deep into Pakistan’s airspace in the early morning of May 8 – reaching as far as the country’s economic capital, Karachi – daily life in major urban centres remained largely unaffected.

Markets bustled, schools and universities conducted exams as scheduled, and streets bore no signs of panic.

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