Asia | Climbing the escalation ladder

This India-Pakistan showdown is dangerously different

New weapons, new tactics, new risks

A Kashmiri resident reacts in his house damaged by cross-border shelling in Salamabad village, near the Line of Control Uri.
Photograph: Eyevine
|DELHI

Editor’s note (May 10th, 2025): Since this article was published, Pakistan said it had launched retaliatory strikes against India.

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