BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

INDO-PAKISTAN SECURITY RELATIONSHIP AND THE KARGIL CRISIS

Author: A. K. M. Abdus Sabur

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/ BIISSj1999v20n3a2

ABSTRACT

The traumatic birth of India and Pakistan in August 1947 decisively influenced the security relationship between them in the subsequent periods. An attempt is made in the article to deal with the Indo-Pakistan security relationship with a focus on the nuclearisation and the Kargil crisis. It has been argued that the Kargil crisis has painfully revealed that while nuclearisation has added a more dangerous dimension to Indo-Pakistan security relationship that the two countries will have to deal with. it has not changed the traditional security relationship for the better. One of its consequences is the continuation of the arms race between the two countries -both nuclear as well as conventional and consequential presistence of the threat of war between the two.