{"id":71605,"date":"2025-05-07T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/india-and-pakistan-can-ill-afford-war-but-who-will-talk-them-down"},"modified":"2025-05-07T23:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:37:17","slug":"india-and-pakistan-can-ill-afford-war-but-who-will-talk-them-down-hannah-ellis-petersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71605","title":{"rendered":"India and Pakistan can ill afford war, but who will talk them down? | Hannah Ellis-Petersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has brought the two sides back from the brink before, but the mood is very different with Trump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/may\/06\/pakistan-india-attacks-kashmir-live-updates\">Kashmir crisis live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The uneasy calm that had settled over India and Pakistan in the past two weeks was swiftly shattered in the early hours of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>In the days that followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/22\/tourists-killed-by-suspected-militants-in-kashmir-attack\">deadly attack<\/a> that killed 25 Indian tourists and a guide in Kashmir in late March, the Indian government made it clear it held Pakistan responsible \u2013 and it intended to avenge the deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/india-and-pakistan-can-ill-afford-war-but-who-will-talk-them-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has brought the two sides back from the brink before, but the mood is very different with TrumpKashmir crisis live \u2013 latest updatesThe uneasy calm that had settled over India and Pakistan in the past two weeks was swiftly shattered in the early &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71605\/revisions\/71606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}