India, March 18 -- Food supplies may drop over 20% in 70 poor countries with 1.3 blnpeople, the study estimated

Unprecedented food shortage and global famine lasting more than a decade can be the fallout of an India-Pakistan war, according to a recent study published in journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The study examined potential environmental and societal consequences if the two South Asian neighbours were to start even a limited nuclear war.

According to the study:

Territorial disputes over the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan provide an increasingly high level of instability and escalatory retaliation could result in the use of nuclear weapons.

The firestorms would launch over five million ...