New Delhi (TDI): As tensions with Pakistan escalate following a deadly gun attack in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), India is actively seeking global support to strengthen its justification for potential military action.
Despite no concrete evidence linking Pakistan to the Pahalgam incident, the possibility of an explosive confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors is becoming increasingly concerning.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urgently contacted with over a dozen global leaders in a flurry of diplomatic calls after Pahalgam attack, according to New York Times.
Meanwhile, Indian Ministry of External Affairs have swiftly summoned envoys from 100 foreign missions for the for high-level briefings.
In the occupied valley, Indian troops have also started a massive crackdown, arrested over 2,000 Kashmiris and demolished their houses.
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Earlier, India announced to disrupt the flow of water to Pakistan by unilaterally suspending the Indus Waters Treaty.
New Delhi also ordered to limit staff members at Pakistan’s diplomatic mission as well as the departure of Pakistani nationals visiting India.
Pakistan, for its part, has announced it will suspend all the bilateral agreements with India, including the treaty related to the line of control.
Anti-Muslim sentiment in India is also growing, with extremists are harassing Kashmiri students studying in different cities, while many of them feeling compelled to return home.
Five days after the terrorist incident, in which gunmen killed twenty-six tourists, India has not officially identified any group as having carried out the attack, and it has publicly presented little evidence to back its claim that Pakistan was involved.
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A military confrontation between Pakistan and India, both nuclear powers, has the risk of immediate escalation that could be difficult to control.
But New Delhi seems largely unrestrained by any international pressure to limit its war-mongering tactics.
Farkhund Yousafzai is an Associate Editor at The Diplomatic Insight.
