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Monday, September 2, 2019

History, Misconceptions and Conflict in South Asia

Myths of Kashmir
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/jammu-kashmir-special-status-india-pakistan-china-terrorism-by-brahma-chellaney-2019-08
Standing up to China-Pak Nexus
https://openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/after-article-370-standing-up-to-china-pakistan-nexus/

Tilting at More than Windmills in South Asia
Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, notes:
“… the US would be unwise to turn to Pakistan as a strategic partner. Pakistan sees a friendly government in Kabul as vital to its security and competition with arch-rival India. There is little reason to believe that the military and intelligence services, which continue to run Pakistan, will rein in the Taliban or rule out terrorism.
Equally, the US would be unwise to alienate India.”

Washington Post op-ed on the Kashmir Conflict:
Pakistan’s response to Kashmir is only helping Modi. It should stay out of this.

C. Christine Fair, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, offers her take:
India’s Move in Kashmir: Unpacking the Domestic and International Motivations and Implications