Following a terrorist attack in Kashmir last spring, India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, exchanged military strikes in an alarming escalation. Former Pakistani foreign minister Hina Khar joins ...

The actual flaw of the limited-war thinking of the Indian side is that it presupposes the possibility to predict and contain the escalation. The South East Asian strategic environment is not a sterile ...

In trying to conceal losses at home while urgently advertising fear abroad, Pakistan has ended up fooling itself more than ...

(From left) Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asim Munir, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, at a closed-door meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Washington, DC, September 26, 2025.

Operation Sindoor marked the arrival of large-scale kinetic, non-contact warfare in the subcontinent, defined by fighting ...

India’s response to the 7 May Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 civilians, was swift and strategically calculated. Operation Sindoor was launched to dismantle ...

The world watched anxiously as India and Pakistan exchanged ballistic missiles during what is now remembered as the 88-hour war of May 2025. Observers feared that an uncontrolled escalation could push ...

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - As India’s defense chief attended an international security conference in Singapore in May, soon after India and Pakistan fought what many in South Asia now dub “the ...

Pakistan’s military claimed it shot down five Indian Air Force jets, including three French-made Rafales, in a major escalation of cross-border hostilities potentially marking the first combat loss of ...

The real story in South Asia today is not tariffs or Russian oil, but Washington’s quiet reassessment of Pakistan, and its implications for both the India-U.S. relationship and China’s role in South ...