Washington DC, May 16 -- Amid tensions between India and Pakistan, Aparna Pande, Research Fellow and Director of the India Initiative at the Hudson Institute, said that tensions between the two countries follow a familiar pattern that has been "on repeat" since 1989. She emphasised that every few years, a terrorist attack, often in Kashmir, triggers a fresh wave of heightened tensions.

She noted that periodic terror attacks often trigger escalations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Pande also pointed out that since 2016, India's response to such attacks has changed.

In an interview with ANI, Pande said, "This is a cycle on repeat, a film which has been happening every few years since 1989. Every few years, there's a terror atta...