Opinion: A lot has changed between India and Pakistan. We should be worrying about what hasn’t.
Protesters shout anti-India slogans during a demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, on Feb. 28. By Mosharraf Zaidi March 8 Mosharraf Zaidi is a senior fellow at the policy think tank Tabadlab.
This is all very new. A brazen Indian fighter-jet attack of Pakistani territory has not happened since 1971. Pakistan’s swift retaliation was certainly unexpected. Pakistan has not taken down an Indian plane in two decades. And Pakistan’s return of a captured pilot within three days of capture has never, ever happened.
But now, that cycle seems disrupted — at least in Pakistan. After returning the Indian pilot whose MiG-21 plane was taken down, Pakistanis, buoyed by gaining the moral upper hand, began the week after Balakot on a bit of a high.
Dar was a born and bred Kashmiri who was first picked up for questioning by Indian security forces at the age of 17. Before he drove a carload of explosives into a convoy of Indian soldiers, he had reportedly been arrested and released six times.
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