By Saeed Shah, Asif Shahzad, Shivam Patel and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At 2.09 a.m. on Saturday, Ahmad Subhan, who lives near an air base in the Pakistan military garrison city of Rawalpindi,

A series of military strikes last week by India and Pakistan brought the nuclear-armed rivals closer to a broader war.

The US-brokered ceasefire agreement will not go anywhere near addressing the fundamental grievances fueling the decades-long dispute over the status of Muslim-majority Kashmir.

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In such a scenario, where Pakistan faces an existential threat, or believes that its territory is about to be overrun, it may decide to “go nuclear”—even at the risk of self-destruction. The latest test of this pattern arose in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Indian-Administered Kashmir on April 22.

How India threads the diplomatic needle - courting favour with Trump over issues like trade while asserting its own interests in the Kashmir conflict - will depend in large part on domestic politics and could determine the future prospects for conflict in Kashmir.