Conflicts between Pakistan and India are not new. However, the wealthy world’s interest in South Asia is growing quickly.
For nations, CEOs, and investors who are banking on the world’s fifth-largest economy emerging from the global trade war as a safe haven, this makes it more difficult to overlook the risk of a collision between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
India claimed to have attacked nine “terrorist infrastructure” locations in Pakistan on Wednesday, just hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a historic trade agreement with the UK and bragged about his nation’s development into a thriving center of international trade. The contrast between political and economic developments is startling.
