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India-Pakistan Spiraling Towards a Perilous Abyss
The deadly terror attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, which was initially claimed by The Resistance Front, an entity India accuses of being linked with Pakistan-based banned group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has New Delhi and Islamabad staring at the specter of…
Post Pahalgam, Does Diplomacy Have a Chance?
India and Pakistan are on the precipice of a crisis once again, following an attack on tourists in the Pahalgam area in the Anantnag district of Indian-administered Kashmir last week. The attack, responsibility for which was claimed by a relatively…
Indo-Pak Dynamics and the Kashmir Issue in the Wake of the Pahalgam Attack
The recent terror attack in Pahalgam, which targeted unarmed civilians and killed 26 people, marks a dangerous escalation between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan. The Resistance Force, a group widely believed to be associated with Pakistan-based and United Nations-designated terror…
Pahalgam Aftermath: Assessing the Escalatory Potential of India and Pakistan’s Responses
As its first response to the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, initially claimed by an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, India’s Cabinet Committee on Security issued a list of diplomatic, political, and non-military directives vis-à-vis…
The Fragility of Stability: India-Pakistan Nuclear CBMs in the Shadow of Pahalgam
The ensuing India-Pakistan crisis in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack has once again put the fragile architecture of regional stability under stress. The sweeping retaliatory measures by both India and Pakistan have resulted in an unprecedented suspension of the…
25 Years After Kargil: Assessing Pakistan’s Crisis Preparedness
This summer marks a quarter century since the Kargil conflict, and a lot has changed between Pakistan and India in the intervening years. Several crises have ensued. Islamabad and New Delhi have come close to potential war more than once.…