{"id":398291,"date":"2019-03-06T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/india-and-pakistan-stoke-chauvinism-exchange-threats\/"},"modified":"2019-03-06T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:44:19","slug":"india-and-pakistan-stoke-chauvinism-exchange-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/india-and-pakistan-stoke-chauvinism-exchange-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Pakistan stoke chauvinism, exchange threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>Days after coming to the brink of all-out war<\/h4>\n<h2>India and Pakistan stoke chauvinism, exchange threats<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Deepal Jayasekera<br \/>\n    <br \/>6 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Cross-border shelling across the Line of Control (LOC) that separates Indian- and Pakistan-held Kashmir has reportedly declined over the past 48 hours. However, tensions between South Asia\u2019s rival nuclear-armed powers remain extremely high, leaving the region teetering on the brink of a catastrophic war.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides continue to exchange bellicose threats and to accuse each other of preparing further military strikes, including \u201cterrorist\u201d attacks and covert operations.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi threatened further military action against Pakistan if Islamabad does not cut off all logistical support from its territory for the anti-Indian insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. \u201cWe have told [Pakistan],\u201d said Modi, \u201cif they don\u2019t improve, they know what will happen to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Earlier Tuesday, Pakistan military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor told the country\u2019s leading English-language newspaper, <em>Dawn,<\/em> that India\u2019s apparent \u201cstrategic restraint over the past 24 hours\u201d is no reason for Islamabad to reduce its threat level. \u201c[W]e cannot lower our state of vigilance and readiness. We have to stay prepared against any misadventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghafoor added that Islamabad has seen nothing to convince it that New Delhi wants to ease tensions. India at this point is \u201cemotionally\u201d \u201cnot prepared\u201d to de-escalate, charged Ghafoor. Indian forces, he claimed, spent the weekend \u201cluring\u201d and \u201cprovoking\u201d Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Later yesterday, Islamabad claimed its forces had chased off an Indian submarine when it tried to enter Pakistani waters. New Delhi rejected the claim, saying the video footage Pakistan had released&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/06\/inpk-m06.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Days after coming to the brink of all-out war India and Pakistan stoke chauvinism, exchange threats By Deepal Jayasekera 6 March 2019 Cross-border shelling across the Line of Control (LOC) that separates Indian- and Pakistan-held Kashmir has reportedly declined over the past 48 hours. However, tensions between South Asia\u2019s rival nuclear-armed powers remain extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}