Will India and Pakistan go to war?

Recent skirmishes are ‘steep escalations in the most serious military crisis in south Asia since 1999’

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Indian and Pakistani border guards perform the Beating Retreat ceremony
(Image credit: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistan and India have each claimed attacks on the other’s fighter jets as tensions reach a peak in the two nuclear powers’ dispute over Kashmir.

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