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India-Pakistan Hostilities Complicate India’s Diplomatic Options
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India-Pakistan Hostilities Complicate India’s Diplomatic Options

Will Washington be able to successfully navigate India’s evolving outlook?
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Ilustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch. (Photographs from Unsplash)

The dust is settling, slowly, from India and Pakistan’s military collision as a delicate U.S.-brokered ceasefire took hold May 10. The origins of the conflict are clear enough: India sought to severely punish Pakistan for alleged links to a barbarous Islamist terror attack in late April in Kashmir, a region that both countries claim and have previously fought wars over.

Bill Drexel is a fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he focuses on U.S.-India relations and strategic technologies.

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