Indo-Pak Crisis in Wake of Terrorist Attack on Indian Parliament

Abstract

The wave of terrorism has been a major threat to the world, especially to India and Pakistan. These two states have been suffering acts of terrorism for a very long time. India and Pakistan’s support for the militancy has become a major strengthening point for the terrorists. The terrorist groups have taken a complete benefit of the situation, exploited the two states, and brought them into a confrontation against each other many times. The main objective of this current research is to know the variables, which avoided predictable war between India and Pakistan during the 2001-02 crises. This study employed a qualitative methodology to know the outcomes through secondary data analysis. This article answers two questions, which posed in the study. First, were terrorists successful in leading India and Pakistan towards war in 2001-02 crises? Second, did nuclear deterrence succeed to avert a crisis between the two countries? This article found that terrorists were so strong that they led two nuclear-weapon states towards a major crisis in 2001-02, which could result in a predictable dispute between the two states. Secondly, this article gives another finding that the nuclear preemption unsuccessful to avert a crisis between India and Pakistan during the 2001-02 crisis. The crises between these two South Asian nuclear states can only be resolved via diplomatic channels.