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The Secretary-General is very concerned about the Indian military operations across the Line of Control and international border. He calls for maximum military restraint from both countries,
said his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric in a statement
We will pursue them to the ends of the earth,
Modi vowed, promising to punish those responsibleIt's a shame. We just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval (Office)."
Asked for his reaction to the attacks, he said
I echo @POTUS's comments earlier today that this hopefully ends quickly and will continue to engage both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution,
he said, referring to President Donald Trump's remarks earlier in the dayThe world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan,
he addedThe legality of the whole thing is contested,
says Sudhir Selvaraj
The maharaja understood that the cost of defence against the Pakistan-backed invasion would be accession to India, or utter destruction of his kingdom.”
Says RejPublic anger across the country is palpable. Frankly, there is no question of letting this slide as far as India is concerned.”
Meanwhile, ... says Abhijnan RejThese are two strong militaries that, even with nuclear weapons as a deterrent, are not afraid to deploy sizeable levels of conventional military force against each other,
Kugelman said
From a contemporary point of view, Kashmir is where Indian, Pakistani and Chinese interests interact and, more often than not, collide,
says Indian author and policy researcher Abhijnan RejThe taps are not going to run dry immediately,
says Sudhir Selvaraj, a political scientist at the University of BradfordThe diplomatic outreach this time has been quite extensive and the idea for India would be to showcase whatever evidence it has to its partners and to make a case that whatever actions might be coming from its side has the support of its partners and allies,
said Harsh Pant, the foreign policy head at the Observer Research Foundation think tank in New Delhi.jpg)
Full-scale war is unlikely,
says Abdullah Yusuf, a specialist in UN peacekeeping and Middle East politics at the University of DundeeIn addition to making it less powerful politically, it also allowed for a change in demographics,
says Sudhir Selvaraj, as the change for the first time let Indians from the rest of India buy land in Muslim-majority Jammu and KashmirI couldn’t tell if it was army, paramilitary, whatever,
he says, so he quickly made his way back homeNew Delhi and Islamabad are not novices when it comes to sabre-rattling and have done so before, giving us in South Asia several minor heart attacks in the last two-and-a-half decades,
he saysMake no mistake. For Washington and Beijing, Kashmir is not a people’s tragedy. It is a pawn in their larger geopolitical chessboard,
he saysIndia-Pakistan relations had actually been relatively calm, what I’d call a cold peace, in the years before this crisis,
he says