By aligning with Pakistan, Türkiye risks alienating India, which is now engaging Ankara’s rivals with urgency.

While the ties between Kabul and Karachi were in a freefall, Afghanistan’s relationship with India continued to thrive. On January 4, 1950, the two signed a five-year friendship treaty, mutually recognising each other’s independence, agreeing to build cultural relations, and furthering cooperation in industry and agriculture.

Humanity has lived with nuclear weapons for so long — 80 years, this year — without destroying itself, that we sometimes take them for granted. But there’s no guarantee that our run of luck will continue. In fact, the risks are growing and transforming.

Analysts say the outreach underscores concern in India that it did not receive strong international support for its military operations against Pakistan.

The war between India and Pakistan is not new ... altitude sickness, cold.... During the Siachen conflict, a pair of Pakistan Army soldiers as pose at a machine gun position, 5000 meters up ...

One factor is geography. Unlike the nuclear warfare threat that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Pakistan and India are not separated by any meaningful ...