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India – Pakistan conflict
- Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss regional counter-terrorism efforts and multilateral peacekeeping missions. Dawn - Home · 8 Oct 2026Pakistan waging ‘global war’ against terrorism, Naqvi tells UN chief on last day of his visit
- Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar petitioned UN officials regarding alleged Indian violations of the Indus Waters Treaty and the Kashmir dispute. Dawn - Home · 8 Oct 2026Pakistan waging ‘global war’ against terrorism, Naqvi tells UN chief on last day of his visit
- India summoned Pakistan's diplomatic envoy to protest militant infiltration attempts and denied allegations of civilian killings along the Punjab border. Hindustan Times · 8 Oct 2026'Lost control of its Frankenstein': India lambasts Pakistan's doublespeak on terrorism at UN
- Hindustan Shipyard Limited launched the Indian Navy's first fleet support ship Surya and laid the keel for a fifth auxiliary vessel. Naval News · 8 Oct 2026Hindustan Shipyard Launches First Fleet Support Ship ‘Surya’ for Indian Navy
- Indian delegate Raghoo Puri told the UN General Assembly Sixth Committee that Pakistan finances and facilitates cross-border militant organisations. Hindustan Times · 8 Oct 2026'Lost control of its Frankenstein': India lambasts Pakistan's doublespeak on terrorism at UN
Multilateral Diplomatic Sparring
Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York to address regional security matters. Dar accused New Delhi of breaching the Indus Waters Treaty and appealed for international focus on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. In response before the General Assembly Sixth Committee, Indian delegate Raghoo Puri rejected Pakistani assertions and argued that Islamabad continues to shelter and finance militant networks across the region. Dawn - Home · 8 Oct 2026Pakistan waging ‘global war’ against terrorism, Naqvi tells UN chief on last day of his visitHindustan Times · 8 Oct 2026'Lost control of its Frankenstein': India lambasts Pakistan's doublespeak on terrorism at UN
Border Infiltration Tensions
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs summoned Pakistan's diplomatic representative to register an official protest against attempted cross-border infiltrations. New Delhi formally dismissed Pakistani claims that Border Security Force personnel caused civilian deaths during firing incidents along the Punjab frontier. The exchange follows reported fatal shooting incidents near Kasur, while the May 2025 ceasefire understanding remains formally observed along the Line of Control. Hindustan Times · 8 Oct 2026'Lost control of its Frankenstein': India lambasts Pakistan's doublespeak on terrorism at UN
Naval Support Modernization
Hindustan Shipyard Limited launched the Indian Navy's lead Fleet Support Ship, Surya, during a ceremony attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Visakhapatnam. Shipbuilders also laid the keel for the fifth vessel in the auxiliary series alongside the inauguration of upgraded production infrastructure. The 44,000-tonne support vessels are configured to supply fuel, munitions, and provisions to Indian naval task groups, expanding sustained operational reach throughout the Arabian Sea and wider Indian Ocean. Naval News · 8 Oct 2026Hindustan Shipyard Launches First Fleet Support Ship ‘Surya’ for Indian Navy
Assessment
Interstate friction remains limited to diplomatic démarches and rhetorical clashes at the United Nations, with the May 2025 ceasefire framework continuing to prevent direct cross-border military escalation.
BOTTOM LINE // Diplomatic friction remains confined to United Nations speeches and formal border protests without fresh military exchanges between Indian and Pakistani forces.
The National Interest notes the International Energy Agency expects India to increase its coal usage. The National Interest · 2 Oct 2026Energy Security in a De-Globalizing World
- Next 12 months
- The National Interest reports the International Energy Agency expects India to use 4.2 percent more coal in 2026.
- 2026-10-07
Pakistan conducts test launch of extended-range Fatah-IV ground-launched cruise missile
Pakistan's military test-fired an indigenously developed extended-range version of the Fatah-IV cruise missile on 6 October. The test follows earlier trials of naval anti-ship ballistic missiles and the 750-kilometer variant of the Fatah-IV.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
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 19.4/100 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 19.4/100 — 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.