Under PM Modi, India More Likely To Respond To Pak Provocations: US Intel
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The annual threat assessment of the US Intelligence Community also said "expanded military posture by both India and China...elevates the risk of armed confrontation between two nuclear powers"
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is more likely than in the past to respond with military force to any real or perceived Pakistani provocations, the American intelligence community has told the US Congress.
The annual threat assessment of the US Intelligence Community released by the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) also said that the "expanded military posture by both India and China along the disputed border elevates the risk of armed confrontation between two nuclear powers that might involve direct threats to US persons and interests and calls for US intervention."
"Crises between India and Pakistan are of particular concern because of the risk- however low - of an escalatory cycle between two nuclear-armed states," it said.
"Pakistan has a long history of supporting anti-India militant groups; under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is more likely than in the past to respond with military force to perceived or real Pakistani provocations, and each side's perception of heightened tensions raises the risk of conflict, with violent unrest in Kashmir or a militant attack in India being potential flashpoints," it said.
