The Institute of International Affairs has released the new Pacific Report No. 29.

In this issue, Professor Sandip Kumar Mishra of Jawaharlal Nehru University contributed an article titled <India-Pakistan Clash and India’s Foreign Policy Approach>.

Professor Mishra explains that the recent clash between India and Pakistan happened after 26 tourists were killed by terrorists in Pahalgam city of Kashmir in India.
After India and Pakistan became nuclear states in 1998, India found itself in a more complicated situation in dealing with ‘Pakistan sponsored terrorism’.

India has proclaimed that any ‘act of terror’ coming from Pakistan would be considered an ‘act of war’ and India has the right to respond strongly.
If any disgruntled terrorist group of Pakistan wants to bring a clash between India and Pakistan, they would do a terrorist activity in India without consent or support of Pakistan and bring India-Pakistan at a brink of another clash.
At present a narrative war between India and Pakistan has been going on.

Professor Mishra comments that it is said that choose your friends carefully but choose your rivals more carefully. India needs to be aware of this saying and hopefully along with responding to Pakistan’s act of terrorism would not lose sight of its regional and global status, image and credibility.