India-Pakistan: maybe war, but not a water war

The suicide attack on Indian troops in Kashmir two weeks ago was the deadliest in three decades, and Jaish-e-Mohammad, a militant Islamist group based in Pakistan, took credit for it.

Indian, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, could do a great deal of harm to Pakistan if it chose to, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 5, 2019

After the terrorist attack on Indian troops in Kashmir two weeks ago that killed 40 Indian soldiers, but before Tuesday’s retaliatory air strikes across the border into Pakistan by the Indian Air Force, the Indian government did something unprecedented. It threatene...

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