{"id":68848,"date":"2025-05-02T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68848\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:32:08","slug":"eu-steps-in-as-alarming-india-pakistan-tensions-rise-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68848\/","title":{"rendered":"EU steps in as \u2018alarming\u2019 India-Pakistan tensions rise \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gunmen, who New Delhi has accused Islamabad of supporting, reportedly targeted Hindus, who make up the majority of the Indian population.<\/p>\n

India has since expelled Pakistani diplomats, suspended a crucial water treaty and canceled visas for Pakistani nationals, with Pakistan responding in kind, and minor skirmishes have erupted along the frontier.<\/p>\n

A Pakistani minister claimed this week<\/a> that India was planning a military attack. The United States has also urged both countries, which have warred with each other before \u2014 most recently in 1999 \u2014 and have nuclear arsenals, to defuse tensions.<\/p>\n

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen led a delegation to India in February to discuss a long-awaited trade deal between the bloc and New Delhi.<\/p>\n

After the attack in Pahalgam, she sent condolences to \u201cevery Indian heart\u201d and vowed in a post on X<\/a>, \u201cEurope will stand with you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gunmen, who New Delhi has accused Islamabad of supporting, reportedly targeted Hindus, who make up the majority…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[521,768,6178,2000,34594,299,5187,730,2596,2597,6026,34595,1201,49,1220,6863,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-68848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-india","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-kaja-kallas","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-pakistan","19":"tag-subrahmanyam-jaishankar","20":"tag-trade","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","23":"tag-visas","24":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439202034069169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}