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  • 5/9/2025
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00:00Last week's deadly militant attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, which claimed
00:0526 civilian lives, has reignited a grim sense of deja vu for India's security forces and
00:13diplomats.
00:14This is familiar ground.
00:16In 2016, after 19 Indian soldiers were killed in Uri, India launched surgical strikes across
00:23the line of control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan, targeting militant bases.
00:28In 2019, the Pulwama bombing, which left 40 Indian paramilitary personnel dead, prompted
00:35airstrikes deep into Balakot, the first such action inside Pakistan since 1971, sparking
00:42retaliatory raids and an aerial dogfight.
00:45And before that, the horrific 2008 Mumbai attacks, a 60-hour siege on hotels, a railway station,
00:52and a Jewish center, claimed 166 lives.
00:55Each time, India has held Pakistan-based militant groups responsible for the attacks, accusing
01:02Islamabad of tacitly supporting them, a charge Pakistan has consistently denied.
01:07Since 2016, and especially after the 2019 airstrikes, the threshold for escalation has shifted dramatically.
01:15Cross-border and aerial strikes by India have become the new norm, provoking retaliation from
01:20Pakistan.
01:21This has further intensified an already volatile situation.
01:25Once again, experts say, India finds itself walking the tightrope between escalation and
01:32restraint, a fragile balance of response and deterrence.
01:36One person who understands this recurring cycle is Ajay Basarya, India's former high commissioner
01:42to Pakistan during the Pulwama attack, who captured its aftermath in his memoir, Anger Management,
01:49the troubled diplomatic relationship between India and Pakistan.

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