With the slow dread of a monsoon storm gathering over a landscape already shaped by decades of tension, the 2025 conflict between India and Pakistan did not begin with tanks, jets, or televised addresses. It began, for many travellers, with the sudden sharpness of fear in a place they had expected to find beauty.
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UNSETTLED BORDERS, UNSETTLED JOURNEYS:
What the India – Pakistan Conflict Means for Travellers and the Local People
With the slow dread of a monsoon storm gathering over a landscape already shaped by decades of tension, the 2025 conflict between India and Pakistan did not begin with tanks, jets, or televised addresses. It began, for many travellers, with the sudden sharpness of fear in a place they had expected to find beauty.