Pakistan and India have no option but to talk and settle the decades-old Kashmir dispute to avert any serious conflict.
An Indian army solider walks past the wreckage of an Indian aircraft after it crashed in Budgam area, outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Feb.27, 2019.
Tension rose on February 14 after a suicide attack in the Pulwama area of Indian-administered Kashmir in which 40 paramilitary troops were killed. India's ruling BJP leaders distribute sweets as they celebrate reports of Indian aircrafts bombing Pakistan territory, in New Delhi, India, on Feb. 26, 2019.
An indigenous militancy has hit Indian-administered Kashmir where a majority of the people oppose New Delhi’s rule. The United Nations and major world power react to the situation not because of what’s happening in Kashmir but because both the countries are nuclear powers, he says. A few hours after reports surfaced that an Indian pilot is in Pakistan’s custody, Prime Minister Imran Khan offered to cooperate with New Delhi in investigating the Pulwama attack. People celebrate the shooting down Indian planes by Pakistani forces, outside the Parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Feb. 27, 2019.
“Everyone knew for at least multiple weeks of what was about to happen. For world leaders to just sit and hope that it will go away was, I think, an amazing act of hubris,” says Najam.
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