{"id":33918,"date":"2019-03-03T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33918"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T13:22:16","slug":"crisis-may-be-easing-but-nuclear-threat-still-hangs-over-india-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33918","title":{"rendered":"Crisis may be easing, but nuclear threat still hangs over India and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Tensions on the border between India and Pakistan last week pushed the two nuclear-powered South Asian adversaries closer to conflict than at any point in the past two decades. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">While the situation has calmed &#8212; Pakistan on Friday<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/01\/india\/india-pakistan-pilot-release-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> released an Indian air force pilot<\/a> it captured after shooting his pane down &#8212; drastic swings in relations are the norm. Both countries know the risks when tensions spike. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Following their separation in 1947, relations between India and Pakistan have been in a near constant state of agitation. The two sides have fought several major wars &#8212; the last being in 1999 &#8212; involving thousands of casualties and numerous skirmishes across the Line of Control in the contested Kashmir region.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Tensions on the border between India and Pakistan last week pushed the two nuclear-powered South Asian adversaries closer to conflict than at any point in the past two decades. While the situation has calmed &#8212; Pakistan on Friday released an Indian air force pilot it captured after shooting his pane down &#8212; drastic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}