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A “tit for tat” border conflict between India and Pakistan exploding into all-out nuclear war should be “every sane person’s deepest fear”, a foreign policy expert has warned. India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations late on Tuesday night, killing at least 26 people, including a child, in what Pakistan’s leader called an act of war. The country’s military said it struck infrastructure used by militants linked to last month’s massacre of tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
Pakistan then claimed it shot down several Indian fighter jets in retaliation as two planes fell onto villages in India-controlled Kashmir. At least seven civilians were also killed in the region by Pakistani shelling, Indian police and medics said. The nations are two of the world’s nuclear-capable militaries. Prof Antony Glees, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Economics and International Studies at the University of Buckingham, told The Express that the fate of the world could well now be on a knife-edge.
He said: “Everyone knows that there would be no winners if India and Pakistan used nuclear weapons against each other, although it does not stop them from fighting awful conventional wars like Putin’s war against Ukraine. However, tit for tat conflicts can escalate.
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