{"id":71748,"date":"2025-05-12T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/11\/finding-a-way-forward-in-the-india-pakistan-conflict"},"modified":"2025-05-12T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:07:27","slug":"finding-a-way-forward-in-the-india-pakistan-conflict-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71748","title":{"rendered":"Finding a way forward in the India-Pakistan conflict | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof Shafiqul Islam<\/strong> and<strong> Wajid Mushtaq Teli <\/strong>respond to an editorial on the ongoing military clashes between the two countries<\/p>\n<p>Your editorial (<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\">The Guardian view on India and Pakistan: a newly dangerous moment in an old dispute, 7 May<\/a>) underscores the alarming escalation between India and Pakistan, but the suspension of the Indus waters treaty and the missile strikes are more than just a return to familiar hostility. They reflect a deeper pattern that I call the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.substack.com\/\">urgency-actionability trap<\/a>: the impulse to respond to provocation, even when those responses, whether symbolic or military, offer little durable benefit and risk spiralling escalation.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s suspension of the Indus treaty is technically limited \u2013 it cannot \u201cturn off the tap\u201d overnight \u2013 but it sets a dangerous precedent in normalising water as a weapon. Pakistan\u2019s retaliatory posture, similarly, satisfies domestic politics while weakening regional water security. Neither action advances stability; both reinforce distrust.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/11\/finding-a-way-forward-in-the-india-pakistan-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Shafiqul Islam and Wajid Mushtaq Teli respond to an editorial on the ongoing military clashes between the two countriesYour editorial (The Guardian view on India and Pakistan: a newly dangerous moment in an old dispute, 7 May) underscores the alar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[62,432,60,972,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-rivers","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\/71748","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71748\/revisions\/71749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}