![Although Pakistan's PM Imran Khan won the perception war in the recent crisis, his country is still losing ground internationally to Narendra Modi's India, writes Shukla [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2019/3/4/a5dbc2fbeb014b419d157801436ab39f_18.jpg "India-Pakistan tensions: Who won the war of perceptions?")
Last week, hostilities between India and its neighbor
Pakistan erupted, sharply deteriorated and threatened to escalate into
an all-out war until cooler heads prevailed.
While it lasted, the
confrontation led to casualties on both sides and was a major threat to
world peace. Soldiers on both sides were either killed or injured and a
lot of military hardware was also destroyed in the face-off.
Given the history of four wars and sporadic flare-ups between
these two nuclear powered and heavily armed countries, as well as the
near-permanent acrimony between them over the disputed territory of
Kashmir, this recent conflict set the world on edge with fears that it
could degenerate into all-out war. The two countries have fought wars in
1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999. This is not counting the series of border
flare-ups which regularly occur on the disputed Kashmir border.
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