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Weaponizing Water in South Asia
0 comments | by Conn Hallinan
During the faceoff earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still
Read Full ArticleHair-trigger Nuclear Alert over Kashmir
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Two of the world’s most important powers, India and Pakistan, are locked into an extremely dangerous confrontation over the bitterly disputed Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir. Both are nuclear armed. Kashmir has been a flashpoint since Imperial Britain divided India in 1947. India and Pakistan have fought numerous wars and conflicts over majority Muslim Kas
Read Full ArticleIndia’s Kashmir Crackdown Poses Risk of War
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On August 5, India’s Hindu nationalist government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, while flooding the region with troops, imposing a curfew, and shutting down all communications. The state is to be broken in two, with the eastern portion (Ladakh) under direct rule by New Del
Read Full ArticleHybrid War and Challenges For Pakistan
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The world has changed. Wars are fought no more on battlegrounds but with touches of buttons and turnings of knobs. Hybrid warfare has revolutionized the arena where every country exhausts all possible means without even moving. “The categories of warfare are blurring and no longer fit into neat, tidy boxes. One can expect to see more tools and tactics of destr
Read Full ArticleKashmir is seething — and somebody needs to step in before it's too late
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US officials conduct 'war games' every few years to test the risks of nuclear war. Every hot situation ends up with a pragmatic solution except one: India and Pakistan. Narendra Modi suspended Article 370 of the Constitution in August, throwing Kashmir further into crisis ( AFP/Getty Images ) Amid the world
Read Full ArticleStratfor: Kashmir may provide spark for Pakistan-India...
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Stratfor: Kashmir may provide spark for Pakistan-India nuclear war The specter of nuclear war haunts tensions between India and Pakistan, and the disputed territory of Kashmir could provide the spark that lights South Asia’s nuclear fuse, warns Strafor, a geopolitical intelligence think tank that provides strat
Read Full ArticleReflections on “Peace” In Afghanistan
0 comments | by Andrew Bacevich
When the conflict that the Vietnamese refer to as the American War ended in April 1975, I was a U.S. Army captain attending a course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In those days, the student body at any of our Army’s myriad schools typically included officers from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Since ARVN’s founding two decades earlier, the United
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Islamabad on the Kashmir dispute, a senior official remarked that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Kashmir were passed under Chapter VI of the UN Charter and not under Chapter VII, and are therefore not binding but only recommendatory. This view needs to be corrected. The resolutions passed on Kashmir from 1947 to 1957 cannot be termed
Read Full ArticlePM Imran welcomes Afghan Taliban's release of two...
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PM Imran welcomes Afghan Taliban's release of two western hostages Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday welcomed the Afghan Taliban's release of two western hostages . In a series of tweets, the PM said, "Pak wel
Read Full ArticleIndian Artillery attacks AJ Kashmir villages, loses nine..
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SIX CIVILIANS and 1PAK SOLDIER KILLED Pakistan RETALITES KILLING 9(nine) INDIAN SOLDIERS Indian Artillery attacks AJ Kashmir villages, loses nine troops in reprisal MUZAFFARABAD: Six civilians and a soldier of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom while two soldiers and a
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