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Can the Indus Waters Treaty Be Held in Abeyance? What the Law Allows
Two days after the April 22 attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi declared that its participation in the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) would be “held in abeyance” until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably abjures ” with cross-border terrorism.…
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…
SAV Q&A on Third Party Intervention Post Pahalgam-Part 1
With New Delhi’s precision strikes into mainland Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 7, the crisis between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack has escalated further. South Asian Voices asked experts Yun Sun, Barbara Slavin, and…
SAV Q&A with Lisa Curtis: The Pahalgam Crisis & U.S. role
On April 30, 2025, Lisa Curtis spoke with South Asian Voices Editor-in-Chief Akriti Vasudeva Kalyankar and Associate Editors Elizabeth Zazycki and Omaer Naeem on the implications of the India-Pakistan crisis post Pahalgam, the potential U.S. role in deescalating the situation, and how…
Atoms for Partners?
SAV recently published a piece by Hely Desai on India's development of small modular reactors and its implications for New Delhi's nuclear energy and economic goals. In this analysis, Brigadier (Retd). Zahir Kazmi responds with some of the concerns that…
پاکستان کے میزائل پروگرام کے خلاف پابندیاں: جنوبی ایشیا میں تغیر پذیر امریکی ترجیحات
اٹھارہ دسمبر 2024 کو امریکی حکومت نے 5500 کلومیٹر سے زیادہ کا سفر کرنے کی اہلیت رکھنے والےطویل فاصلے تک مار کرنے والے میزائلوں، جنہیں بین البراعظمی (انٹر کونٹینینٹل) بیلسٹک میزائل بھی کہا جاتا ہے، کی مبینہ تیاری میں ملوث ہونے…