India and Pakistan Edge Toward a Conflict Neither Can Afford
An Indian paramilitary soldier keeps guard on a street in Srinagar on May 4.
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India and Pakistan are the closest they’ve been to military conflict in years following last month’s devastating attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir. The turmoil couldn’t come at a worse time for the economies of the two nuclear-armed nations.
For India, the crisis has struck in the middle of intense negotiations over a trade deal with the US that New Delhi hopes will spare it from President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been counting on the pact to bolster India’s pitch to global investors that it is a haven from Trump’s trade war.