Indo-Pakistani relations
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The airstrikes
An extract on Indian airstrikes in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir after the Pulwama attack, with the poster inviting ‘value-add thoughts’.
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India, Pakistan, Kashmir..
The author argues that the India-Pakistan conflict is asymmetric because Pakistan wants to change the Kashmir status quo while India is content with it, surveys Pakistan’s attempts to change it…
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Is Pakistan (or Pak sponsored group) responsible for the attacks?
Zach relays a friend’s view that India’s high-tech monitoring makes smuggling across the Line of Control near impossible, and discusses who was behind the Pulwama attack. He says the situation…
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Can India and Pakistan Make Peace?
Major Agha H. Amin’s 2013 article argues that Pakistan’s military desire for peace with India is a tactical response to US pressure over Afghanistan, as with Musharraf’s earlier overtures. The…
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Tweet of the Day
Amused that a white friend cooks Pakistani dishes, the author says they could be called Indo-Mughlai, notes their Turanian influences, and objects to a novelist’s use of ‘desi’ for a…
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Kashmir
With the Kashmir government fallen, X.T.M says he would prefer the LoC as a soft border with no redrawing of the map, and warns he will delete comments that turn…
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Pakistan and India. The Long View.. (updated)
The author argues that the India-Pakistan conflict is asymmetric because Pakistan wants to change the Kashmir status quo while India is content with it, surveys Pakistan’s attempts to change it…
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Cake & Rape
X.T.M, after Pakistanis accused him of selective posting about the Kathua and Unnao rapes, argues that India’s justice system is shambolic, that violence against women is the region’s pressing issue,…
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Indian Diplomats in Pakistan harassed
X.T.M quotes a report of Indian diplomats being harassed in Islamabad, then reflects on apologising for one’s community’s failings, contrasting Pakistani and Hindu defensiveness and tying right-wing Hindu mobilisation to…
