Modi and Imran bask after 'good' Kashmir crisis.
As tempers cool after an alarming confrontation between India and Pakistan, analysts say their leaders have emerged stronger -- with Narendra Modi burnishing his nationalist credentials and Imran Khan cast as a peacemaker.
An insurgency since the late 1980s -- stoked by Islamabad, New Delhi says -- in the part of Kashmir that India administers has killed tens of thousands of people, most of them civilians. Deadly shelling over the de-facto frontier and clashes between Indian security forces and militants notwithstanding, Abhinandan's release on Friday looks to have taken the sting out the standoff for now.
Modi"looks like a war-mongering minuscule leader, while the Pakistani prime minister looks like a statesman," said analyst Mosharaf Zaidi. Huma Yusuf, from the Wilson Center, cautioned that the challenge of initiating dialogue with India remains. Even doubts about the efficacy of the air strikes inside Pakistan and the embarrassing shooting down of the pilot have failed to dampen the national enthusiasm for Modi's response.
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