When a 70-year-old Indian grandmother decided she wanted to spend the rest of her days living with her sons in the disputed province of Kashmir, she probably had no idea that she was about to spark a potentially catastrophic clash between two of the world’s most implacable nuclear foes.
For it now appears that an enterprising granny from the Indian border town of Churunda, who succeeded in making her way through the heavily defended “line of control” that separates the Indian and Pakistani armies on the Kashmiri border, was responsible for re-igniting the flames of the long-standing dispute over the territory.
It’s probably a combination of being bogged down in half a dozen other countries, preparing to send troops to several dozen African nations, and — hopefully — the good sense not to get between “two of the world’s most implacable nuclear foes.”