Could India-Pakistan tensions spin out of control?
We are in an awkward situation; two nuclear-armed countries have a history of fighting wars. There
is real potential for war.
The political specialist has warned that the current India-Pakistan crisis could spiral into a full-scale war, potentially involving nuclear weapons. Specialists expressed concern over the absence of US intervention.
India is weighing its options to retaliate against Pakistan after a terror strike at Pahalgam in Kashmir in which 26 innocent tourists lost their lives.
Make sure that India didn't launch a major attack against Pakistan, which would then leave Pakistan maybe to use nuclear weapons.
So, it could be the case, let's hope, that this one could spin out of control, and you could have a real war, and nuclear weapons might even be used. If you look at the conventional balance of power between Pakistan and India, it greatly favors India.
And we have always feared that a conflict that started off at the conventional level would escalate to the nuclear level because the Pakistanis would feel compelled to turn to nuclear weapons if they were losing conventionally, which we expect to happen, surely.
While the escalation is not inevitable, the threat is real. None of this is to say that in the past or even now a war will happen and nuclear weapons will be used. But the fact is that there is real potential for war, and nuclear weapons may be used by a defeated Pakistan.
Even in the event of an Indian offensive in Pakistani-Occupied Kashmir, it may not provoke nuclear weapons. Pakistani political leaders are unlikely to sacrifice the rest of Pakistan for occupied Kashmir. The Pakistani military has lost every single war with India before. They are almost prepared to lose another one this time, too!
