(12 May 2025)
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Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir – 12 May 2025
1. Various of Srinagar streets
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New Delhi, India – 12 May 2025
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dilip Sinha, author and former diplomat:
"This doctrine has now been formally established, that if there is an act of terror committed by Pakistan, and we have reasonable evidence to believe that it’s been masterminded from Pakistan, then India will exercise its right to strike at bases inside Pakistan, and it will not be deterred by Pakistan’s nuclear threat. So the bluff of Pakistan’s nuclear blackmail has been, if not called off, certainly set in abeyance."
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Ranbir Singh Pura, Indian-controlled Kashmir – 12 May 2025
4. Various of a villager looking at the damage due to shelling
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New Delhi, 12 May 2025
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dilip Sinha, author and former diplomat:
"The American administration is new. They do not know the background of the case and what has happened in the past. So they’re kind of starting fresh. The very fact that President Trump talked about this war having going on for a thousand years shows that he really has very little knowledge of India-Pakistan relations and of the issues involved in Kashmir. So one hopes that as time passes, he will acquaint himself with these factors under the developments."
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Ranbir Singh Pura, Indian-controlled Kashmir – 12 May 2025
6. Various of laborers packing sacks of wheat
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New Delhi, India – 12 May 2025
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dilip Sinha, author and former diplomat:
"India-Pakistan relations will remain, if not tense, at a certain, very low threshold level of tolerance because Pakistan has not had any change of heart inside it."
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Jammu, Indian-controlled Kashmir – 12 May 2025
8. Various of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers paying tribute during wreath-laying ceremony of their colleague Deepak Chimngakham, who was killed in cross border Pakistani artillery shelling
9. Various of soldiers shouting patriotic slogans, UPSOUND (Hindi) "I pray to thee mother"
STORYLINE:
An Indian author and former diplomat said Monday that India has now "formally established" a policy to respond militarily "if there is an act of terror committed by Pakistan," even under the threat of nuclear escalation.
If "we have reasonable evidence to believe that it’s been masterminded from Pakistan, then India will exercise its right to strike at bases inside Pakistan, and it will not be deterred by Pakistan’s nuclear threat," said Dilip Sinha, speaking via a video call from New Delhi.
His comments come after India and Pakistan reached an understanding to stop all military actions on land, in the air and at the sea on Saturday in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to stop the escalating hostilities between the two nuclear-armed rivals that threatened regional peace.
However, Sinha criticized the Trump administration for not knowing "the background of the case and what has happened in the past."
"The very fact that President Trump talked about this war having going on for a thousand years shows that he really has very little knowledge of India-Pakistan relations and of the issues involved in Kashmir," he said.
Senior military officials from India and Pakistan are scheduled to speak later Monday to assess if ceasefire was holding.
There were fears it would not hold after they accused each other of violations just hours after it was announced.
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