Washington, March 8 : A nuclear war between India and Pakistan is “most likely” and the “relative calm” is not a solution as long as the two neighbours refuse to deal with their core dispute of Kashmir, the New York Times has said in an opinion piece.
In the Thursday write-up, the daily’s Editorial Board said that although the India-Pakistan tensions had diffused for now, their “nuclear arsenals mean unthinkable consequences are always possible”.
The board wrote that “this relative calm is not a solution” and the US needed to get involved in defusing the tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad.
“As long as India and Pakistan refuse to deal with their core dispute – the future of Kashmir – they face unpredictable, possibly terrifying, consequences.”
According to the NYT, the next confrontation between the two neighbours might not end “so calmly”.
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