After a week of mounting violence between India and Pakistan, the return
of India’s captured pilot did not lead to immediate calm. Rather, heavy fire was reported from forces on both sides of the Line of Control deep into Saturday and into early Sunday.
Sunday was a new day, however, and residents on both sides of the Line of Control reported that a lull returned to the area. Tensions remain high, but no one has fired anything in the past 24 hours.
The week of fighting was the worst between India and Pakistan in several
years, and raised fears that the two nuclear-armed states were getting
close to a disastrous war. International calls for restraint didn’t look
to be heeded.
Yet whatever the case, the situation has calmed down, at least for the
time being. While there remains concern that fighting could resume at
any time, and tensions are far from dissipating.
India has a dangerous Hindu nationalist autocrat who needs a war or conflict to win the upcoming parliamentary elections by stirring up the Hindu base against Muslim Pakistan.
Modi is Sanskrit for Bibi.
As long as Kashmir remains an illegally occupied apartheid state, peace will always be a novelty at best for those poor people.
F**k Modi.