India - Pakistan Relations: Before and After Balakot Strikes - Incite at Columbia University

On February 26th, 2019, India launched an air strike on the Pakistan-controlled area of Balakot.  Aimed at what India states was a training camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) group, these airstrikes were the first launched across the line of control - the de facto border that divides India-administered Kashmir from Pakistan-administered Kashmir - since 1971.  The stikes led to Pakistan using their own fighter jets to chase the Indian planes out of the airspace over Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, esclating tensions further.  Dr. C. Christine Fair will speak to guests about the future of the relationship between India and Pakistan after these strikes. Dr. Fair is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She previously served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and a senior research associate at the United States Institute of Peace.  She is the author of In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2018/2019). Dr. Arvind Panagariya, the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, will give the opening remarks.  The talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by Dr. Panagariya. This event is free and open to the public.  Registration is highly encouraged.