Breaking Down Complex Conflict Between India and Pakistan
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On February 14, a 20-year old man drove a car packed with explosives into a bus full of Indian Central Reserve Police Forces. 40 of the police officers died in the attack. This happened in an Indian controlled portion of Kashmir and India responded by launching an air strike on a village in Pakistan. Things have escalated since then and, as so often happens in modern conflict, gotten confusing and muddied.
With us today to help untangle all this is Suchitra Vijayan. Vijayan is a writer, photographer, and lawyer. Her work has appeared in GQ, the Telegraph, and Foreign Policy. As a lawyer she worked for the United States war crimes tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. As a journalist, she was embedded with NATO-led troops along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and is currently studying the conflict in Kashmir and India’s borderlands.
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| 0:23.4 | Yeah, the question is, can nuclear states keep doing this given the precarious nature of how things are unfolding, given what's happening in Syria. |
| 0:27.1 | Also understand that these regions are connected. |
| 0:29.9 | Just as what happened in Bosnia, affected Iran, |
| 0:32.3 | during the Yugoslav war, |
| 0:34.0 | what's happening in Kashmir is going to affect the larger region. |
| 0:36.7 | And I think those are things that we should be more cognizant of. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. |
| 0:54.0 | Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm Matthew Gault. And I'm Derek Gannon. |
| 1:12.0 | On February 14th, a 20-year-old man drove a car. I'm Matthew Galt. And I'm Derek Gannin. |
| 1:12.8 | On February 14th, a 20-year-old man drove a car packed with explosives into a bus full of Indian Central |
| 1:17.6 | Reserve Police Forces. |
| 1:19.7 | Forty of the police officers died in the attack. This happened in an Indian-controlled portion of the police officers died in the attack. This happened in an Indian controlled portion of Kashmir and India responded by launching an |
| 1:27.2 | an air strike on a village in Pakistan. Things have escalated since then and as so often happens in modern conflict, gotten confusing and muddied. |
| 1:36.5 | With us here today to help untangle all of this is Suchitra Vagyan. |
| 1:40.0 | Vagyan is a writer, photographer, and lawyer. Her work has appeared in GQ, the Telegraph, and foreign policy. |
| 1:46.1 | As a lawyer, she worked with the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal |
| 1:50.6 | for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. |
| 1:52.8 | As a journalist, she was embedded with NATO-led troops along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border |
| 1:57.4 | and is currently studying the conflict in Kashmir and India's borderlands. |
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