Tag: India-Pakistan relations

Open Thread (Birthday)

X.T.M · December 17, 2025 · 14 comments

Imran Khan’s sons speak out: “Our father’s prison conditions aren’t bad, they’re awful.” Whatever one thinks of Pakistani politics, the treatment of a former prime minister is a measure of a state’s institutional health.

“Pakistanis and Indians are like distant cousins.”

Is the Paknationalism or Indophilia; the strange twist of Pakistan is that both can be true at the same time.

It was my birthday two days ago on the 15th. The official celebration will be later this month in Sri Lanka, but the last few weeks have been unusually hectic with travel and work. Continue reading Open Thread (Birthday)

Two months in and Biden gets India, Pakistan and China to behave — Because of Afghanistan

theselongwars · November 2, 2025 · No comments

I did not expect America to start pulling its international operations together so quickly after the arrival of the occasionally cognizant Joe Biden, but the political operative who became Barack Obama’s Vice-President does mostly shine through. The problem is that the old coot talks like a slow old coot. His ideas are fine, it’s just that he’s slowed with age and it’s obvious when he talks..so…slowly.

However, a month into Biden’s presidency, India and China began to publically speak about disengagement on their Himalayan front. Then, Pakistan and India, the enfant terribles (French for fucking brats) announced that they were beginning their ceasefire across the LoC, in the spirit of the Musharraf-era ceasefire of 2003 (that had been preceded by a nuclear standoff) and has been honoured more in the breach than in observance.

 

 

 

 

 

The benefits of not having an ignorant asshole in power

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