'Will Consider Stopping If...': In New U-Turn, Pakistan Minister Softens Tone As India Strikes Back - News18 The statement came as top government sources told CNN-News18 that Pakistan wants to de-escalate and has established communication with New Delhi to meet the Indian side

It remains possible that each side, having got missile strikes in, and with India having had what it can claim is the final word, could stop.

“Pakistan’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday said his country would “consider stopping here" if India stopped”

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Agreed, but I’m a bit biased!

Opinion | India and Pakistan Enter a More Dangerous Era

Asfandyar Mir:
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Can Trump Handle the India-Pakistan Crisis? The two countries barely avoided war under the last administration. This time is worse.

Can Trump Handle the India-Pakistan Crisis?
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The ‘Reverse Kissinger’ Strategy Is Based on Bad History The idea relies on a historical fallacy: Kissinger didn’t create the Sino-Soviet split. He merely took advantage of it.

The idea of the Trump administration pulling a "reverse Kissinger" relies on a historical fallacy: Kissinger didn’t create the Sino-Soviet split. He merely took advantage of it.

Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

What are the floors and ceilings of the Russo-Indian defense partnership? Daniel Markey and I assess Russia and India’s ties in @warontherocks.bsky.social

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Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

The Russo-Indian defense relationship is full of contradictions. Washington’s task is to understand it well enough to see what comes next. warontherocks.com/20...

Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties - War on the Rocks Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for

"U.S. policymakers need to appreciate both the floor and the ceiling of Russo-Indian relations." Fascinating and detailed @warontherocks.bsky.social piece by @dbrostoff.bsky.social and Dan Markey warontherocks.com/2025/04/frie...

Stealing the USIP building in broad daylight

Photo of Nate Cavanaugh, the twenty-something DOGE affiliate who is the new acting president of USIP. He is a young white man with brown hair and blue eyes. He’s wearing a black shirt and smiling at the camera.

Rubio and Hegseth have installed this twenty-something DOGE affiliate, Nate Cavanaugh, as acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, per filing.

Before DOGE took control of USIP, the duly appointed president was George Moose, a career diplomat who first joined the foreign service in 1967.

USIP is not a government agency. This is theft.

If Trump is firing USIP employees because they ‘failed to deliver peace’, then shouldn’t CIA staffers face the same fate for failing to have or acquire ‘intelligence’ ?
Most employees at US Institute of Peace mass-fired via late-night email

BREAKING — Nearly all employees at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) received an email tonight informing them they were fired effective immediately, multiple staffers confirmed with me.

Just a few HR and IT staffers are being kept on to assist DOGE’s illegal dismantling of the independent nonprofit.

Can Modi’s Washington Visit Lay the Foundations for Close Relations With the Us During Trump 2.0? YouTube video by The Wire

Karan Thapar summing up: "The Trump admin will not share the Biden admin's belief that something that is in the long-term interest of India would also be in the long-term of the United States. Trump will be more transactional, less concerned about India's future."
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Can Modi’s Washington Visit Lay the Foundations for Close Relations With the Us During Trump 2.0? YouTube video by The Wire

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Policy Playbook #3: Trump 2.0, India, and the subcontinent with Daniel Markey and Elizabeth Threlkeld An overview of U.S. ties with South Asian states during Pres. Trump's first administration, analyses of Trump 2.0, and insights on India-U.S. ties from two leading American scholars and policymakers.

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