The missile strikes on Pakistan carried out by Indian warplanes herald another outbreak of serious conflict between the two neighbours who started fighting in the very year they won independence from Britain in 1947. In just over 50 years they fought four major regional wars – including in 1971, when Pakistan lost a large chunk of its territory to become Bangladesh.
Could we be on the brink of the fifth India-Pakistan war since 1947, and the first major clash between the two countries this century?
