The massacre triggered diplomatic measures of Tit-Forfor Tat between India and Pakistan that included visa cancellation and a retirement of diplomats. Nueva Delhi also suspended a crucial treaty to share water with Islamabad and ordered its closed edge with Pakistan.
Indian and Pakistani troops have also exchanged shots along the control line that divides Kashmir into parts administered by each country.
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who previously insisted that the security situation in Kashmir was stabilized after a separatist insurgency of decades, has promised a remuneration. It was expected that a meeting of the Security Committee would convene on Wednesday, after a meeting with its senior military and security officials.
“India has pointed out a certain position in front of Pakistan to the domestic public so that it makes it difficult for them not to carry out a strike in front of a terrorist attack,” Srinath Raghavan, professor of international relations and history at the Ashoka University in India.
Tensions have increased among neighbors with nuclear weapons since the withdrawal of the United States in Afghanistan, that experts have said that historically has disadvantaged violence between India and Pakistan.
President Donald Trump said the two countries will resolve it among them.
“They will solve it in one way or another,” he told reporters. “There is a great tension between Pakistan and India, but there has always been.”
The strategic and political decisions surrounding Indian military actions have historically been the prerogative of his chosen government, Raghavan said.
He added that the military has the “operational attitude to decide what kind of objectives they want to respond and how they want to carry out these operations.”
“This means that there is no moderation in them,” he said. “Of course, the military will make a presentation to Modi, but after that, they will advance.”
