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India-Pakistan conflict: Why both sides lost this round

Despite the chest-thumping and claims of victory, both countries are counting the costs of their latest clash.

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A schoolboy walks towards his home near the Line of Control between India and Pakistan at the Krishna Ghati pass in Jammu, India, on May 6.

A schoolboy walking towards his home near the Line of Control between India and Pakistan in the Krishna Ghati pass in Jammu, India, on May 6.

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For most of May, the conflict headlines in Asia centred around the 96-hour clash between India and Pakistan, following New Delhi’s punitive strikes on its neighbour, which it blamed for a terrorist attack in Kashmir.  

After the Trump administration claimed

it had intervened to stop the conflict for fear

it would escalate into a nuclear exchange, phrases like “nuclear flashpoint” and “world’s most dangerous trouble spot” have emerged all over again as descriptors for the sub-continent

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