• The Indian government outraged Pakistan with its August 2019 decision to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its constitutionally guaranteed autonomy and reduce its status to a union territory that was directly administered by the national government. | AFP-JIJI
    The Indian government outraged Pakistan with its August 2019 decision to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its constitutionally guaranteed autonomy and reduce its status to a union territory that was directly administered by the national government. | AFP-JIJI
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NEW DELHI – Recent conciliatory moves by India’s nationalist government on its western flank have rightly aroused global interest.

But Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s calculus appears relatively simple. Faced with continued Chinese aggression on India’s northern frontier and a likely Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, improving relations on the country’s western flank, with Pakistan, seems prudent.

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