Cost of Conflict: India and Pakistan

For the first time in the 57 years of hostility between India and Pakistan a comprehensive assessment of the cost of conflict between the two countries has been made by Strategic Foresight Group in this report. The past assessment of the cost of conflict has been limited to military expenditure and opportunity cost of trade. The Cost of Conflict between India and Pakistan, takes into account comprehensive economic costs, socio-political damage, military costs, diplomatic costs, human costs and even the implications of the nuking of Mumbai and Karachi. The report has also estimated Gross Terror-economy Product (GTP) of Kashmir and Pakistan and likely financial and human costs that the two countries will incur in the next five years if they do not consolidate the gains made at the SAARC Summit at Islamabad in January 2004. It is a rare document, presented in graphical form for easy and quick comprehension by decision makers.

• India-US Defence Pact
  The Nation, July 17, 2005
• Post-'01 stand-off cost pegged at $3bn
  The Economic Times, December 27, 2004
• The cost of India-Pakistan Conflict
  The Friday Times, December 24 - 30, 2004
• Consolidation of SAARC gains vital for India, Pakistan: Report
  UNI, November 16, 2004
• VIEW: Who wants peace?
  Daily Times, October 10, 2004
• What's the real cost of sustaining Indo-Pak conflict?
  The Economic Times, September 4, 2004
• Cost of Conflict between India and Pakistan
  The Daily Mail, July 12, 2004
• Cost of Conflict between India and Pakistan
  The Daily Mail, May 25, 2004
• Think If trade ties were more like cricket...
  The Strait Times, May 2, 2004
• Book Review
  South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, May 2005
• What War will Bring
  Dawn, May 23, 2004
• Indo-Pak Conflict: Positive Costs, Zero Benefits
  The Financial Express, April 20, 2004
• Debt of History
  Khabrain, April 27, 2004
• The cost of conflict between India and Pakistan
  Samachar.com, March 25, 2004
• Cost of Conflict Between India and Pakistan
  Acha Peace Bulletin, March 15, 2004
• The shocking calculations
  Weekly Independent, March 11-17, 2004
• Washington Diary
  India Journal, March 11, 2004
• Whitepaper on ISI spies in India
  Pragativadi, March 9, 2004
• OP-ED: The cost of Pakistan-India conflict
  Daily Times, March 6, 2004
• The wounds of conflict in South Asia
  The News International, March 6, 2004
• UPI Hears...
  The Washington Times, March 3, 2004
• Plea for another Pakistan-India summit
  The News International, March 2, 2004
• The Cost of Indo-Pak conflict
  The News International, February 29, 2004
• Social sector will boom if guns fall silent
  The Times of India, February 26, 2004
• The cost of nuclear conflict
  The Asian Age, February 22, 2004
• Potential gains from Peace in the Indian-Pakistan Conflict
  Peace and Conflict Monitor, February 19, 2004
• India and Pakistan-Economic costs of conflict
  The Financial Express, February 18, 2004
• Pakistan's "terror economy": 6.6% of its GDP
  jihadwatch.org, February 17, 2004
• Pak terror economy billed at Rs 264 bn
  The Times of India, February 16, 2004
• Book presents cost of Indo-Pak conflict
  Rediff.com, February 13, 2004
• India/Pakistan Conflict
  Bergens Tidende, May 26, 2002

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