Green Left Show #57: Peace and justice for Kashmir, India and Pakistan

Are India and Pakistan Gambling With Nuclear War?

Last week, a terrorist attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir sparked a rapid military escalation: planes were shot down, thousands were arbitrarily detained, the houses of suspect’s families were blown up. How did we get to a situation in which the safety of the whole world is threatened by the occupation of Kashmir? Richard Hames spoke to Kashmiri scholar Mohamad Junaid about the brinkmanship of India and Pakistan, what daily life is like under end…

Green Left Show #57: Peace and justice for Kashmir, India and Pakistan

Ammar Ali Jan of the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP) speaks to Isaac Nellist  on the Green Left Show the pathway to justice for Kashmir, Pakistan and India.

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How real is the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan?

By Soutik Biswas – BBC In the latest India-Pakistan stand-off, there were no ultimatums, no red buttons. Yet the cycle of military retaliation, veiled signals and swift international mediation quietly evoked the region’s most dangerous shadow. The crisis didn’t spiral towards nuclear war, but it was a reminder of how quickly tensions here can summon that spectre. Even scientists have modelled how easily things could unravel. A 2019 study by a gl…

India and Pakistan Stand on the Abyss of a Fragile Nuclear Balance

In a region haunted by a history of war and the ever-present specter of terrorism, the nuclear dynamic between India and Pakistan remains one of the world’s most dangerous tightropes. Each country possesses roughly 170 to 180 nuclear warheads, and while their arsenals are dwarfed by those of the U.S. and Russia, the risk of intentional or accidental escalation in South Asia is arguably far higher.  The most recent standoff, triggered by a deadly…