{"id":1537,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/how-does-cross-border-terrorism-impede-the-achievements-of-peace-upsc-psir-2020-4203\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:33","slug":"how-does-cross-border-terrorism-impede-the-achievements-of-peace-upsc-psir-2020-4203","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/how-does-cross-border-terrorism-impede-the-achievements-of-peace-upsc-psir-2020-4203\/","title":{"rendered":"How does cross border terrorism impede the achievements of peace and security in South Asia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 terrorism as state policy, not law-and-order problem \u2014 1971 turn to asymmetric balancing \u2192 Bhutto&#039;s strategic depth + Zia\u2019s thousand cuts \u2014 peace blocked at source R2 Pahalgam \u2014 one attack puts a treaty that outlived three wars in abeyance \u2014 the instrument is policy, not crime \u2014 peace blocked at source<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Tellis: plausible deniability + a war Pakistan cannot win + nuclear deterrent as licence \u2014 India\u2019s dual denial: no decisive victory, no regional pre-eminence \u2014 cost turns regional \u2014 no SAARC summit since 2014 \u2014 Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan abandon Islamabad with India after Uri \u2014 counter-terror work moves to BIMSTEC, Pakistan out \u2014 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance since Pahalgam &gt; Pant: engagement now conditioned by Pakistan\u2019s behaviour<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">coercion has not changed the incentive \u2014 Cohen: a stalemate neither side can win nor absorb \u2014 each retaliation carries escalation risk<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 Pakistan\u2019s own war with the Afghan Taliban since February 2026 \u2014 strategy turning on its author \u2014 South Asia insecure while terrorism remains policy R2 SAARC dead, BIMSTEC a workaround, Indus Treaty in abeyance \u2014 whole regional order now shaped by one strategy \u2014 peace waits on that strategy being given up<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[41],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[83],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1537","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-41","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-india-and-south-asia","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1537\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}