Analysis / Trading fire: Are India and Pakistan going to full-scale war?

Among the world's hot spots, Kashmir and Himalaya regions have seen the biggest number of wars and conflicts in the contemporary history. Although over the past 6 decades tensions between India and Pakistan have several times escalated, they have winded down shortly later. The relations of the two neighbors have gone critical afresh in recent weeks, with war looking close. The tensions boiled over when last month armed men killed 26 Hindu civilians in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Indian officials said that a probe reveled "clear complicity of Pakistan-based elements" in the attack. An Indian military attack ensued. But Islamabad categorically rejected New Delhi allegations.