{"id":71621,"date":"2025-05-08T02:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/india-pakistan-strikes-warfare-normalised"},"modified":"2025-05-08T02:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:49:51","slug":"indias-pakistan-strikes-show-how-warfare-has-been-normalised-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71621","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Pakistan strikes show how warfare has been normalised again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All-out war is unlikely but shifting of goalposts amid Gaza and Ukraine conflicts suggests Kashmir crisis could escalate<\/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>India\u2019s string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/india-pakistan-kashmir-attack-missile-strikes-what-we-know-so-far\">attacks on Pakistan<\/a> overnight \u2013 a response, Delhi says, to the killing of 26 in a terror attack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/22\/tourists-killed-by-suspected-militants-in-kashmir-attack\">in Kashmir last month<\/a> \u2013 comes at a time when warfare has become increasingly normalised internationally and the restraints of the global diplomatic system weakened.<\/p>\n<p>Though flare-ups between the two south Asian powers are nothing new, India\u2019s Operation Sindoor is already notably more aggressive than recent military actions launched by Delhi against its neighbour in 2016 and 2019, raising the stakes for Pakistan\u2019s promised response to what it says was \u201can act of war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/india-pakistan-strikes-warfare-normalised\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-out war is unlikely but shifting of goalposts amid Gaza and Ukraine conflicts suggests Kashmir crisis could escalateKashmir crisis live \u2013 latest updatesIndia\u2019s string of attacks on Pakistan overnight \u2013 a response, Delhi says, to the killing of 26 i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[1644,62,432,60,399,61,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaza","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-palestinian-territories","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine","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\/71621","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71622,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71621\/revisions\/71622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}