Islamabad, Pakistan – Islamabad, Pakistan (AP) – India and Pakistan They have fought three large -scale wars since they won the independence of Great Britain in 1947. They have also had dozens of skirmishes and conflicts, including one on a glacier called colder battlefield and higher in the world.
The last climbing follows a Attack of mortal weapons against tourists that India Kake Pakistan for – Islamabad denies any connection. But they do not fight against wars like other countries.
The dominant factor is your Nuclear Weapons ArsenalA different way of deter the main attacks and a guarantee that the fight does not get out of hand, even when the situation is spiral.
This is how, and why, India and Pakistan fight as they do:
“Pakistan and India have enough nuclear weapons to clean the other side several times,” says security analyst Syed Mohammed Ali, based in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. “Its nuclear weapons create a scenario for mutually assured destruction.”
Both countries have deliberately “developed” the size and range of their arsenal to remind the other about the guarantee of mutually assured destruction, he adds.
None of the countries reveal its nuclear capabilities, but it is believed that each one has between 170 and 180 eyelets that are short, long and medium. Both countries have different delivery systems: ways to launch and boost these weapons to their objectives.
Arsenales are a defensive movement to prevent and deter more struggles, because “none of the parties can afford to start such a war or expect to achieve something from it,” says Ali.
It may not be seen in this way towards the stranger, but nuclear weapons are a reminder for the other side that they cannot take things too far.
But the secret around its arsenales means that it is not clear if Pakistan or India can survive a first nuclear strike and take reprisals, something called “second attack capacity.”
This capacity prevents an opponent from trying to win a nuclear war through a first strike by preventing aggression that could lead to nuclear climbing.
Without this capacity, there is no, in theory, nothing that prevents one side of one side of the eye in the other.
India and Pakistan have claimed Cashmiro since 1947, when both won independence, and border skirmishes have created instability in the region for decades. Each country controls a part of Kashmir, which is divided by a very militarized border.
The two archirrival have also fought two of their three wars on Kashmir, a region of the disputed Himalayas divided between them where the armed insurgents resist the Indian government. Many Muslim assigns support the objective of the rebels to unite the territory, either under the Pakistani domain or as an independent country.
Border outbreaks and militant attacks in the back controlled by India have led New Delhi to take an increasingly hard position on Islamabad, accusing him of “terrorism.”
In the last conflict, India punished Pakistan by hitting what he said they were sites used by militants backed by Pakistan linked to a massacre of arms last month.
India is one of the world’s largest defense spending, with $ 74.4 billion in 2025, according to the military balance report of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also one of the world’s largest weapons.
Pakistan is not far behind, spending $ 10 billion last year, but can never match the deep pockets of India. India also has more than double the active number of the armed forces that Pakistan.
While India’s armed forces traditionally focus on Pakistan, it has another nuclear neighbor with which to deal, China, and more and more care about maritime security in the Indian Ocean. Those are two factors that Pakistan does not have to consider in his security paradigm.
The long and narrow form of Pakistan, along with the huge role of the military in foreign policy, makes it easier to move the armed forces and prioritize defense.
Neither Pakistan nor India are in a hurry to announce their military movements against the other and, as seen in the current hostilities, the confirmation of strikes and reprisals to the surface can take time.
But both launch operations in territories and airspace controlled by the other. Sometimes, these are destined to damage the control points, the facilities or the sites that the militants supposedly use.
They are also destined to shame or provoke, force leaders to lean to public pressure and respond, with the calculation error potential.
Many of these activities originate along the control line, which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. It is largely inaccessible to the media and the public, which hinders the independent verification of the statements of an attack or retaliation.
Such incidents increase international alarm, because both countries have nuclear capabilities, which forces India and Pakistan and, finally, their competitive claims on Kashmir.
The fear of nuclear war has put the two countries at the top of the agenda, competing with The papal conclavePresident of the United States Donald Trump’s policiesand The combination of Sean “Diddy” In the news cycle.
The battles and skirmishes of Pakistan and India are far from the public eye.
Strikes and reprisals are sooner at night or later in the morning and, with the exception of drone attacks on Thursday, they take place mostly from densely populated urban centers. It shows that none of the countries has the desire to significantly damage the population of the other. The attacks are described as surgical or limited.
None of the countries is motivated by competition for resources. Pakistan has a great mineral wealth, but India is not interested in them and, although there are ideological differences between the Indian of the Hindu majority and Pakistan of Muslim majority, they do not seek control or influence on the other.
Apart from Kashmir, they have no interest in claiming the territory of the other or exercising domain.
