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India-Pakistan tensions

India-Pakistan tensions
The latest news, analysis and opinion on India-Pakistan tensions. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
Pakistan Navy ships berth at Gwadar port in the southwest Pakistani province of Balochistan on January 15, 2025. Photo: AP
Pakistan

India, Pakistan summon diplomats after naval ships collide in Arabian Sea

This is the first overt military tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours since they engaged in a four-day conflict last year.

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China-India relations

Will ‘transactional’ America assist India in a future border crisis with China?

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India

High pay, high peril: migrant workers brave threats in Indian Kashmir

Pakistan

India-Pakistan water row deepens after Hague court ruling

India spent decades casting Pakistan as the region’s rule-breaker. A tribunal ruling handed Islamabad the chance to return the favour.

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People gather on the Indus River near Hyderabad, Sindh province, Pakistan, in May 2025. The Indus River system sustains roughly 300 million people across South Asia. Photo: EPA
The Peace Palace in The Hague, home to the Permanent Court of Arbitration. A panel of international arbitrators unanimously ruled against India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty last month. Photo: EPA
A view of Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, on the Chenab River that flows from Indian Kashmir into Pakistan. Photo: Reuters
China's military weapons

From Pakistan to Uzbekistan: how China’s J-10CE is widening its overseas reach

Fighter jet is becoming an appealing option for a growing number of foreign operators, potentially providing insight into its performance.

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China's military weapons

Pakistan’s China-made HQ-17AE system to boost drone defence in future India war

Successful integration with other foreign systems by Pakistan would strengthen China’s export case ‘considerably’, analyst notes.

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India

India targets weapons self-reliance with fully local assault rifle

India has been slowly trying to reduce its reliance on Russian-made weapons as Moscow prioritises its own needs for its ongoing war with Ukraine.

An Indian Army soldier inspects a new AK-203 Sher rifle. Photo: Handout
India

‘Aloof’ but engaged: what India’s SCO comeback reveals

New Delhi’s re-engagement with the China-led bloc serves as a reminder to the US that it has other options, analysts say.

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Pakistan

India rejects ruling on water-sharing treaty with Pakistan by Hague court

The court says India must uphold the treaty and curb work on a hydroelectric plant in Kashmir pending a neutral expert’s assessment.

India

‘Important part of India’: the phrase rattling US-Pakistan ties

Whether a slip or a calculated trade tactic, Sergio Gor’s remark upended decades of studied American neutrality on Kashmir.

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A paramilitary policeman waves India’s national flag in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, on the eve of Independence Day celebrations this month. Photo: Reuters
China-India relations

Open Dialogue | Nirupama Rao, Lin Minwang on India-China fault lines

Ex-diplomat and academic cover nations’ border wars, appeal to Global South and India-US and China-Pakistan relations in candid dialogue.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
SCO

Opinion | The SCO is caught between regional weight and global ambitions

As the SCO marks its 25th anniversary, internal rifts as well as limited financial integration and security cooperation are holding it back.

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China-Middle East relations

China, India and Pakistan’s dangerous nuclear triangle just got more complicated

New Delhi faces a strategic headache from its main rival’s defensive pact with Turkey and the Saudis – but it may be better news for Beijing.

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India

Maldives’ plea to restart South Asian bloc hits India-Pakistan brick wall

Calls for reviving Saarc are likely to fall on deaf ears as long as the two neighbours are at loggerheads, analysts say.

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Pakistani hardline organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa supporters burn a poster of then Indian home minister Rajnath Singh as he arrives in Lahore for a Saarc summit in Lahore on August 3, 2016. Photo: AFP
Canada

UN experts urge Canada to protect Sikh activist facing threats to life

Rights monitors press Ottawa over alleged foreign intimidation targeting Moninder Singh.

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Sikh activist Moninder Singh in 2023. Photo: Reuters
India

Opinion | How China and the US are sidelining India in its own neighbourhood

India is being denied the uncontested dominance it once held. The task ahead is not to restore the old hierarchy but to find a new path.

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Pakistan

Pakistan accuses India of water ‘weaponisation’ over Indus treaty suspension

New Delhi paused its participation in the agreement following the killing of 26 tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir last April.

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China's military weapons

Should China worry more about keeping defence customers than winning new deals?

A study of the risks and opportunities for Chinese weapons exports in global markets cautions against a reductive assumption about quality.

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Chinese-made J-10C fighter jets belonging to the Pakistan Air Force. Photo: AFP
Pakistan

Pakistan rattles India with new Chinese-built stealth submarine

Half a century after a bruising naval defeat, Pakistan is signalling it can again challenge India on its eastern flank.

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India

India’s military revamp to counter China and Pakistan gathers pace

The proposed Integrated Theatre Commands would unite the army, navy and air force in India’s biggest military shake-up since independence.

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India

Letters | Reforms are a band-aid solution to water woes of downstream countries

Readers discuss the necessity of enforceable laws for rivers, Hong Kong’s pivot to Central Asia, and Chinese tourists’ safety fears.

People gather along the Indus River near Hyderabad, Sindh province, Pakistan on May 1, 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE
China's military weapons

China’s PL-15 missile has downed Rafale jets. Is the PL-16 even more powerful?

An unverified briefing slide has emerged with details of the new weapon, weeks after an image appeared of America’s AIM-260.

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A Chinese J-16 fighter jet loaded with missiles including the PL-15, which has a range of 200km. Photo: Handout
Pakistan

Why India, Pakistan cannot afford another war right now

Hardline Indian political figures appear to be signalling a thaw in New Delhi-Islamabad ties is imminent, analysts say.

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Climate change

Opinion | How bad water management is turning up the heat on South Asia

Regional governments should stop blaming shortages on the failure of treaties, diverting attention from much-needed internal reforms.

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China's military weapons

China confirms it helped Pakistan’s air force during last year’s war with India

Engineers tell state media they offered technical support during conflict that saw an Indian-owned Rafale downed by a Chinese-made fighter.

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Pakistan is the only known operator of Chinese-made J-10C fighter jets outside China. Photo: AFP
Pakistan

Chinese J-35 stealth jets set to give Pakistan a strategic edge over India

India has a much larger fleet of 4.5-generation fighters but is lagging behind Pakistan in the acquisition of stealth warplanes.

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The J-35A fighter jet appears during a CCTV report on Shenyang Aircraft Corporation on May 1. Photo: CCTV
China's military weapons

Will new Saudi-Pakistan defence pact give Chinese arms risk-free exposure?

Islamabad’s elevated stature in Middle East security could make it ‘the operational face of Chinese defence systems’ via regional deployment.

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China's military weapons

Has China given the first sign it’s ready to export J-35A fighter to Pakistan?

State media shows J-35A model bearing AVIC logo rolling out of the hangar, the English lettering hinting it is an export model.

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