India-Pakistan Ceasefire: Strategic Restraint, Fragile Stability, and the Search for a Durable Peace
The India Pakistan ceasefire remains one of South Asia’s most consequential yet underexamined security arrangements. Often discussed through the narrow prism of border management, the ceasefire is in fact a broader strategic instrument—one that shapes deterrence stability, affects civilian populations along the Line of Control (LoC), and influences the geopolitical calculus of the wider region.