The conflict between India and Pakistan was faster than before, as they both purchased nuclear weapons at the end of the 20th century. That may be because the regimes of the two countries have never been so similar.
In the past, India’s commitment to secularism and democracy contrasts with Pakistan’s religious tendencies and military dictatorship. Now, despite their announcing hostility, the government has become a mirror image of each other, defined by the border areas of democratic repression and rest, and animates the notion of religious supremacy. They are aggravating each other's dissatisfaction and extremism.
On April 17, Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir delivered a militant speech in Islamabad, providing his Pakistani founding myth and asserting that “we are different from the Hindus in all possible ways.” He described Kashmir as Pakistan’s “jugate vein” and vowed that the country “never give up Kashmirs in a heroic fight against Indian occupation.”
Five days later, on April 22, a group of unidentified militants attacked tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir’s Indian management district. Baisaran Valley is a picturesque meadow that can only be transported by walking and animals, with about 2,000 tourists at the time. Radicals ask tourists to identify themselves or recite them through faith Staya form of Islamic prayer. In this way, they identified the Hindu men in the crowd. Then they killed 26 people, most of whom fired in the head with executive style. All the dead were Hindus except for the lonely Kashmir victims facing militants.
In India, Pahargan killing suffered shock and anger throughout the political field. They also raised questions—about security jumps, and about the country's flawed Kashmir policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who revoked the territory's autonomy in 2019. But probably not coincidentally, an orchestrated drumbeat of hypernationalism soon drowned out those concerns, as pro-government networks and broadsheets, together with an organized scrum of Hindu-nationalist accounts on social media, LED a chorus is used for military retaliation.
India will inevitably respond military. Two days after the radical attack, Modi gave a speech at the election rally, during which he suddenly turned to English, as if to speak to a global audience: "I want to say to the whole world that India will identify, track and punish every terrorist and its supporters. We will pursue their end."
Since the advent of British colonial rule in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought three wars and many smaller skirmishes over disputed areas in Kashmir. Modi has pursued the doctrine of punitive deterrence during his ten years in power, which in practice means no attack or attack. In 2019, terrorist attacks in Kashmir killed dozens of paramilitary officials. Less than two weeks later, India sparked an air strike within Pakistan's territory, resulting in an air war that failed to make a full-scale war. The 2019 Indian strike attacked Balakot in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtutwa province, an early sign that Modi is willing to expand the military operation theater beyond Kashmir.
Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the Indian army went further. It attacked nine locations in Pakistan and the Pakistan-managed area in Kashmir, targeting in Punjab province of Pakistan's military and political power hit half of Pakistan's population. Lahore is the second largest city in the country, just like the first in Rawalpin, the headquarters of Pakistan’s politically powerful military.
Since at least 1971, Pakistan has chosen to fight an asymmetrical battle with India. That year, it lost a war with India, resulting in its eastern wing becoming an independent state of Bangladesh. In the 1980s, under the guidance of the CIA, Pakistan assisted Islamic fighters to expel the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. By the end of that decade, the Soviets were defeated and the jihadist movement turned to Kashmir, where they were able to take advantage of the widespread dissatisfaction of Indian rule. To some extent, strategic thinking guides attacks such as Pahalgam, whose ideas are driven by religion and discord in India, hoping that India’s Hindu majority would oppose its Muslim minority. India, weakened by internal conflicts, will be vulnerable to separatist movements and hinder its rise as a global force.
The Pakistani agency has an uninformed ally to the right of India. Modi's 10 years in power have bravely strengthened the Indian nationalist movement, with supporters demonizing Muslims with Muslims with Muslims in India and Pakistan. Indian nationalist rhetoric often deliberately confuses the two. The Pahalgam attacks have taken violent attacks on Muslims across India. After marking traditionally married Hindu women, the Indian government emphasized religious teachers by naming its military operations Sindoor. As fierce fighting broke out throughout the control line, the Pakistani military killed at least 10 civilians in a Sikh attack in India-managed Kashmir.
India and Pakistan are firmly approaching nuclear war amid the previous stalemate in 2019. At the time, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's late intervention helped ease tensions. But the current crisis exceeds the scope and scale of the crisis. As Indian military strikes sparked pandemenium insects in Pakistani cities, the region was attracted by a premonition that a generation did not have. Mumbai and New Delhi fell into darkness during yesterday's trial outage.
Today, the Indian government said it has made air defense devices in several Pakistani cities, including Lahore, in response to Pakistan's attempt to target military facilities overnight in northern and western India. Pakistan said it had shot down 29 Indian drones and called the attack a "serious provocation."
At night, Pakistani missiles and drones attacked military stations at three northern India locations and Indian-managed Kashmir. Indian networks and news websites have reported retaliatory strikes in Lahore and Islamabad, as well as other Pakistani cities. Many media have begun to describe hostilities as a war. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Pakistan's Prime Minister urging the demotion and the restoration of dialogue between the two countries.
However, for the moment, India and Pakistan seem to be competing for escalating dominance, and there is no ramp to see towards disaster.