{"id":71619,"date":"2025-05-08T03:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/07\/the-guardian-view-on-india-and-pakistan-a-newly-dangerous-moment-in-an-old-dispute"},"modified":"2025-05-08T03:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:15:51","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-india-and-pakistan-a-newly-dangerous-moment-in-an-old-dispute-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71619","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on India and Pakistan: a newly dangerous moment in an old dispute | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both sides believe they are treading carefully, but without intercession the military clash following the murder of Hindu tourists in Kashmir could escalate<\/p>\n<p>The familiarity of military confrontation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/pakistan-authorises-corresponding-retaliation-after-india-missile-strike-punjab-kashmir\">between India and Pakistan<\/a> is no cause for reassurance: this is the worst violence in years. Though neither wants full-blown conflict, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/india-pakistan-kashmir-region-dispute-explained-in-30-seconds\">dispute over Kashmir<\/a> has produced three wars and multiple crises over eight decades. When two nuclear-armed neighbours clash, we should worry.<\/p>\n<p>One reason is that errors and misjudgments are always possible. Following its overnight strikes on Pakistan, which it accuses of involvement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/23\/indian-security-forces-hunt-militants-after-tourists-killed-in-kashmir-attack\">massacre of Hindu tourists<\/a> in Indian-administered Kashmir last month, India said that it hit only terrorist infrastructure and that its actions were \u201cnot escalatory\u201d. This is not a judgment that can be made unilaterally. Pakistan said India was \u201cigniting an inferno\u201d and that its military is authorised to take corresponding actions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/07\/the-guardian-view-on-india-and-pakistan-a-newly-dangerous-moment-in-an-old-dispute\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both sides believe they are treading carefully, but without intercession the military clash following the murder of Hindu tourists in Kashmir could escalateThe familiarity of military confrontation between India and Pakistan is no cause for reassurance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"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":[62,432,433,441,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-nuclear-weapons","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\/71619","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71640,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71619\/revisions\/71640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}