Tense times: Pakistan’s army tanks rolling down during a military exercise in the Jhelum district of Pakistan after India triggered a water emergency in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir territory. — Inter Services Public Relations/AP
THE war clouds have thickened with India’s rising bellicosity.
The recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam in occupied Kashmir and the massacre of some two dozen tourists seem to have provided the excuse India’s Modi government has been looking for to escalate its warmongering. Jingoism has reached new heights. Rational voices are being drowned in a cacophony of insanity. The Line of Control is already heating up with the exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops.
