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How tensions grew between India and Pakistan

UBC professor M.V. Ramana on the historical conflict between India and Pakistan, and how it helps us understand current tensions between the two countries.
India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol along the fenced border with Pakistan in Ranbir Singh Pura sector near Jammu February 26, 2019. Tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals have ratcheted up in recent weeks. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)

The relationship between India and Pakistan has historically been troubled, but this week, tensions escalated with both countries launching airstrikes against one another.

"There's of course the larger significance of these two countries being nuclear states," says UBC professor M.V. Ramana, an expert on nuclear energy in India. He traces the historical conflict between India and Pakistan, and sets up what's at stake globally.

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