Experts say it is likely that further military escalation from India would be met with retaliation from Pakistan. While neither country wants to go into a full-blown war, both do not want to back down from the confrontation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's may have room to ease tensions with arch rival Pakistan, if his counterpart offered certain concessions such as the return of a captured pilot, a political analyst said Thursday.
This week's escalation was triggered after Jaish-e-Mohammed , listed by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, claimed responsibility for an attack in India-controlled Kashmir on Feb. 14 that killed more than 40 Indian security officers. The fate of the Indian pilot underpinned the future of the contentious relationship between South Asian rivals, Tanvi Madan, director of the India Project at Brookings Institution, told CNBC's"Squawk Box."
The traditional format, according to Pervaiz, is for India to keep up the pressure on Pakistan along the so-called Line of Control — the de facto military border between Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Jammu and Kashmir — and embark on a diplomatic campaign to isolate Islamabad globally. Modi is"operating in a very narrow and restricted domestic political space" ahead of a tough re-election campaign, Pervaiz said.
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