{"id":94392,"date":"2026-02-28T00:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/afghanistan-pakistan-escalation-why-india-is-keeping-a-close-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:38:05","slug":"afghanistan-pakistan-escalation-why-india-is-keeping-a-close-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/afghanistan-pakistan-escalation-why-india-is-keeping-a-close-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan-Pakistan escalation: Why India is keeping a close watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is closely watching the dangerous escalation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Islamabad declaring &#8220;open war&#8221; after airstrikes. New Delhi views Pakistan&#8217;s actions as a tactic to mask domestic failures and strongly supports Afghanistan&#8217;s sovereignty. A regional conflict could derail India&#8217;s growing development initiatives and investment plans in the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is closely watching the dangerous escalation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Islamabad declaring &#8220;open war&#8221; after airstrikes. New Delhi views Pakistan&#8217;s actions as a tactic to mask domestic failures and strongly supports Afghanistan&#8217;s sovereignty. A regional conflict could derail India&#8217;s growing development initiatives and investment plans in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":94393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}