Mainstream WeeklyThe 2025 Pahalgam attack was an attack on tourists by five armed militants near Pahalgam, in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in which 26 civilians were killed on 22 April.
The country is no doubt deeply anguished by the Pahalgam attack, but to understand the teleology behind this act, we need more than national grief and the war cry of retribution. If we search from a dispassionate perspective, we will find two particularly troubling aspects of this event: first, in peacetime (…)
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UN Secretary-General asks Pakistan & India to void a military confrontation that could easily spin out of control
10 May 2025UNITED NATIONS
05 May 2025
Secretary-General’s press encounter on India and Pakistan
Tensions between India and Pakistan are at their highest in years.
I deeply respect and am profoundly grateful to the Government and people of both countries — and their significant contributions to the work of the United Nations, not least UN peacekeeping.
And so it pains me to see relations reaching a boiling point.
I understand the raw feelings following the awful terror attack in Pahalgam on (…)