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India – Pakistan conflict
- Pakistani security forces killed 15 Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attempting to cross into North Waziristan from Afghanistan. Dawn - Home · 3 Sep 2026Security forces kill 15 terrorists trying to cross into Pakistan through Afghan border: ISPR
- India rejected a Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling in The Hague affirming the validity of the Indus Waters Treaty. Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera · 3 Sep 2026India rejects court ruling on Indus Waters Treaty
- Pakistan's parliament enacted legislation abolishing the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee to consolidate senior military command. Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera · 4 Sep 2026Why Pakistan overhauled its military command structure after five decades
- The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front rejected Indian charges linking incarcerated chairman Yasin Malik to a 1990 Kashmiri Pandit murder. Dawn - Home · 4 Sep 2026Occupied Kashmir's JKLF condemns 'false' linking of its chairman to 1990 murder of Kashmiri Pandit woman
- Belgian defense officials signed an agreement with Kalyani Strategic Systems for local assembly of 70mm rockets in India. Breaking Defense · 3 Sep 2026Belgium and India partner on local 70mm rocket assembly, wave of industry agreements
Indus Waters Dispute
India rejected a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that declared the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty fully operational. New Delhi maintains that the accord is held in abeyance following the April 2025 Pahalgam attack, whereas Pakistan welcomed the court's finding. Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera · 3 Sep 2026India rejects court ruling on Indus Waters Treaty
Command Restructuring and Counter-Terrorism
Pakistan's parliament passed the Defence Forces of Pakistan Act 2026, which abolished the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee post to consolidate command under the army chief. Separately, Pakistani military forces killed 15 Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan militants in North Waziristan during an attempted crossing from Afghanistan. Dawn - Home · 3 Sep 2026Security forces kill 15 terrorists trying to cross into Pakistan through Afghan border: ISPRAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera · 4 Sep 2026Why Pakistan overhauled its military command structure after five decades
Defense Procurement and Kashmir Disputes
India signed a defense agreement with Belgium enabling Kalyani Strategic Systems to assemble Thales 70mm rockets domestically by 2027. In Kashmir legal proceedings, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front denounced Indian charges against jailed chairman Yasin Malik regarding the 1990 murder of Sarla Bhat. Dawn - Home · 4 Sep 2026Occupied Kashmir's JKLF condemns 'false' linking of its chairman to 1990 murder of Kashmiri Pandit womanBreaking Defense · 3 Sep 2026Belgium and India partner on local 70mm rocket assembly, wave of industry agreements
Assessment
Strategic relations between India and Pakistan remain constrained by the May 2025 ceasefire baseline while legal standoffs over water allocation and cross-border militancy persist.
- 2026-08-31
Permanent Court of Arbitration orders India to uphold Indus Waters Treaty
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ordered India to uphold the Indus Waters Treaty and halt construction on a Kashmir hydropower project. India's Ministry of External Affairs rejected the ruling, asserting the court lacked legal jurisdiction.
- 2026-08-22
Indian Army raises first dedicated drone battalion along Pakistan border
The Indian Army established its first dedicated drone unit, the Baaz Battalion, deployed along the international border with Pakistan.
- 2026-08-19
Pakistan summons US diplomat over ambassador's remarks on Jammu and Kashmir
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry summoned the US chargé d'affaires after US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor visited Srinagar and described Jammu and Kashmir as an important part of India.
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- 2026-08-12
West Bengal police arrest suspected Pakistani national on military spying allegations
Indian security forces detained a suspected Pakistani national near the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal on charges of conducting military intelligence activities using fraudulent documents. Authorities stated the suspect had been residing illegally in India while gathering information on military and transportation assets.
- 2026-08-12
India designates Attari as e-visa entry point while maintaining restrictions on Pakistani travelers
India updated its e-visa immigration framework to include eleven new entry points, including the Attari land crossing on the Pakistan border. Officials emphasized that travel restrictions and strict vetting for Pakistani nationals remain in effect following the April 2025 diplomatic measures.
- 2026-08-12
Indian security forces arrest suspected Pakistani operative in West Bengal near border
West Bengal Special Task Force officers detained a suspected Pakistani national carrying forged Indian identification documents near the Bangladesh border. Authorities reported the individual had resided illegally in India and initiated investigations into potential intelligence links.
- 2026-08-12
India adds Attari crossing to e-visa network while tightening border infrastructure personnel rules.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Are India and Pakistan at war?
No open war. Two nuclear-armed neighbours with a disputed border in Kashmir, recurring cross-border incidents and insurgent violence, and a history of four wars since 1947. In the worldwide legal classification India and Pakistan each appear only for internal conflicts — Maoist insurgency, the TTP, Balochistan — never for a conflict with each other. The index reads 11/100 as of 1 January 1970 (friction), on a scale where 50 and above is reserved for fighting actually under way.
How dangerous is the India and Pakistan situation right now?
The index reads 11/100 — friction. The scale is anchored on 22 historical episodes from 1914 to 2005, so the number means the same thing from one theater to the next. It is a measurement of what is reported, not a forecast.
How is the India and Pakistan risk index calculated?
By fixed formula from open-source reporting: events are extracted and graded by how well evidenced they are, scored across weighted factors, and the model never picks the number. How the index works, and what it does not measure, is explained at wwiii.report/methodology.
How often is this updated?
Every day. The report is rebuilt from that day's reporting and the index re-judged from it, and a fall is published only once the evidence confirms it.
Timeline events — hover the chart to read them
Timeline events — hover the chart to read them
Timeline events — hover the chart to read them
One 0–100 scale for the whole conflict. 0–49 is escalation before war; 50–100 is active war and how far it has gone.
50 is not a threshold the number can cross on its own. Which side a theater sits on is decided by whether verified belligerents are fighting there, so war onset always moves the score up across 50 — the number never declares a war by climbing.
It is a stage, not a probability: 42 is not a 42% chance of war. Below 50 it grades movement toward war, above 50 the war itself.
Why it moved, under the chart, names what changed in the latest move: the day’s readings — strikes, casualties, talks — and, when the conflict’s stage was re-judged, what was graded differently and the events behind it. Open it for the detail.
Re-judged from open reporting by fixed formula — the model never picks a number — and a fall publishes only once the evidence confirms it. A dot on the line is a day the stage itself moved. How it is made →
Direction — which way the week pushed. Severity — where the index sits. Connections — how much of the rest a shock here reaches. Cascade — that reach combined with how ready this theater is to go off.
The index reads the state of the conflict, not the volume of news. Each run grades the factors listed below against fixed rubrics, and the score follows by formula.
So a dramatic headline moves nothing unless it changes a grade. A theater already graded for recurring incursions absorbs one more without moving — it is priced in.
Open How this was measured for every grade, its movement since the last run, and the events behind it. Full construction →
A different measurement from the score above, from a different source. This line counts how much of the world's news reports conflict between these two states, against their own long-run normal: 100 is normal, 200 is twice the usual level.
It is computed mechanically from the GDELT Project's open event stream every 15 minutes and never touches the assessed index above — when both move together, that agreement is the signal. A day with too few events shows no reading rather than a guess. Click the chart for the full history.
Data: the GDELT Project.