The quest for peace in Asia and beyond

A US National Intelligence Council’s document titled ‘Global Trends 2030’, was published in 2012, however, the following prophecies outlined therein are still relevant: ‘With potential for increased proliferation and growing concerns about nuclear security… future wars in South Asia and the Middle East (ME) would risk inclusion of a nuclear deterrent…ME and South Asia are the two regions most likely to trigger broader instability’….Asia, …would constitute one of the largest global threats’…causing large-scale damage to the global economy’. These predictions were proven right in the recent conflicts in the Sub-continent and the ME. Consider this: In Feb 2019, Modi launched a false flag operation(FFO) in Pulwama, IHK and soon after, bombed Balakot in KP, for political advantage in general elections of April 2019. In April 2025, another FFO was undertaken at Pahalgam, IHK, by him to influence crucial State elections in Bihar, that year. Pakistan was blamed for both, without any evidence and as India used nuclear capable missiles in the latter aggression, the conflict could have abruptly escalated to exchange of nuclear weapons. While Pakistani responses to these aggressions humiliated India and caused heavy military losses to it, the BJP achieved its electoral objectives in both instances. Such reckless actions, that are branded as ‘new normal’ by India, could be apocalyptic for Asia. Equally alarming have been the “Twelve-Day War” in June 2025and the second US-Israeli -Iran, conflict that commenced in Feb 2026 and still continues. The Indo-Pakistan standoff also persists; with Indian violation of Indus Water Treaty, despite recent decision of the Hague Court of Arbitration, against Indian suspension of the Treaty. This situation is a clear and present, nuclear flash point. India and Israel have ignored the root causes of the Kashmir and Palestine disputes and the UNSC resolutions about them for almost eight decades. Both have committed aggression against their neighbo