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India – Pakistan conflict
- India's Border Security Force reportedly killed two Pakistani civilians and wounded another along the international border in Kasur on 2 October 2026. Dawn - Home · 2 Oct 20262 civilians martyred in firing by Indian forces near Kasur border: state media
- Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry presented a living suspect to counter Indian army claims of neutralizing an April 2025 Pahalgam attack operative. Dawn - Home · 1 Oct 2026‘Why the need for all this drama’: DG ISPR lampoons India's 'neutralised Pakistani terrorist' claims, presents him before media
- Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry asserted Pakistan's right to conduct cross-border counter-terrorism operations against Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan targets in Afghanistan. Dawn - Home · 1 Oct 2026'Everything necessary will be done': Military spokesman reaffirms Pakistan's right to self-defence against Afghanistan-based terrorism
- Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sajjad Haider Khan indicated Islamabad will comply with applicable domestic and international sanctions affecting transactions with Iran. Dawn - Home · 2 Oct 2026Islamabad hints at cautious shift on US sanctions against Iran
- India's defense establishment initiated reviews of aviation security operating procedures following an attempted cockpit hijacking aboard a commercial flydubai flight. Times of India · 3 Oct 2026India reviews security SOPs, measures after flydubai event
Border Firing Incident
State-run Pakistani media reported on 2 October 2026 that India's Border Security Force fired on three Pakistani villagers near Ladhar in the Kasur sector along the international border. The shooting killed two civilians, identified as Azmat Rasool and Mohsin Jutt, and wounded a third resident. Pakistani security officials stated that the unarmed individuals had stepped past a border pillar when troops opened fire without warning, characterizing the incident as a breach of border management protocols. Dawn - Home · 2 Oct 20262 civilians martyred in firing by Indian forces near Kasur border: state media
Kashmir Narrative Dispute
Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry held a press conference on 1 October 2026 to contest an Indian Army Chinar Corps statement regarding a 29 September counter-insurgency operation in Yousmarg's Korag area. Indian security personnel had reported neutralizing an operative connected to the April 2025 Pahalgam attack. Chaudhry produced the named individual alive before journalists, alleging Indian authorities fabricated the encounter for political messaging. Dawn - Home · 1 Oct 2026‘Why the need for all this drama’: DG ISPR lampoons India's 'neutralised Pakistani terrorist' claims, presents him before media
Afghan Border Friction
Chaudhry separately reaffirmed on 1 October 2026 that the Pakistani military will take necessary actions inside Afghanistan to counter cross-border attacks by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. Pakistani authorities cited persistent cross-border militant strikes following the collapse of a 2022 ceasefire, maintaining that Islamabad reserves the right to self-defense along the Durand Line despite tensions with the Afghan Taliban administration. Dawn - Home · 1 Oct 2026'Everything necessary will be done': Military spokesman reaffirms Pakistan's right to self-defence against Afghanistan-based terrorism
Assessment
Sporadic small-arms fire along the international border and sharp narrative disputes over Kashmir maintain baseline friction without indicating an imminent transition toward broader interstate conflict.
BOTTOM LINE // Lethal cross-border firing along the international boundary in Punjab slightly edges tension up, though bilateral posturing remains otherwise contained within routine bounds.
- 2026-10-03
Indian border troops killed two Pakistani civilians in firing along the Kasur border.
State media reported that India's Border Security Force fired without warning on three Pakistani villagers who stepped past a border marker near Ladhar in Kasur. Two civilians were killed and one was injured, while Pakistani officials alleged a violation of established boundary standard operating procedures.
- 2026-09-29
Pakistan Navy submarine PNS Hangor completes maiden live-fire test
The Pakistan Navy submarine PNS Hangor completed its maiden live-fire weapons testing in the North Arabian Sea.
- 2026-09-26
Pakistan warns India that diverting Indus waters constitutes an act of war
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned the United Nations General Assembly that any Indian effort to divert Indus River waters would be treated as an act of war.
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- 2026-09-16
Pakistani and Indian warships collide during maneuvers in Arabian Sea
A Pakistani naval vessel collided with an Indian Navy warship during high-speed maneuvers in international waters in the Northern Arabian Sea. India summoned Pakistan's chargé d'affaires to protest the collision as a bilateral breach.
- 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.
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 24.4/100 as of 1 January 1970 (coercive pressure), 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 24.4/100 — coercive pressure. 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.