World powers have called on India and Pakistan to de-escalate the tensions gripping the contested region since a Feb. 14 suicide bombing killed over 40 Indian paramilitary troops in India’s Kashmir valley.
WPS Sidhu, Professor at NYU”s Center for Global Affairs:”This latest attack on Valentine’s Day, the responsibility was actually taken by the Jaish-e-Mohammed. So it made it very difficult for India to sit back and say that it was going to let this pass, particularly given that this is an election year and the fact that the Indian prime minister is also under pressure and seeking to you know win this election as well, must have been in part of that calculation too. But, in some ways this attack and the the nature of that attack was probably the last straw for India.” – ASSOCIATED PRESS