India-Pakistan ceasefire holds for a Second day
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Follow The Hindu’s latest developments on the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan after Operation Sindoor.
Pakistan declared an Indian High Commission staff member persona non grata, accusing him of incompatible activities. India expelled a Pakistani official for similar reasons
Pakistan said on Tuesday that it remains committed to the truce with India, agreed after four days of intense fighting last week, but vowed to respond to any future aggression by New Delhi with full resolve.
As tensions ratcheted up over the last week of fighting, Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India, the country’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar told CNN on Monday.
Pakistan declared a staff member of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad “persona non grata” in a tit-for-tat move.
China's vice-foreign minister Sun Weidong met on Tuesday with Pakistan's ambassador to China Khalil Hashmi to discuss tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi, a statement from his ministry said on Wednesday.
Following Saturday’s understanding between India and Pakistan to stop military action on land, in the air and at sea, Trump told reporters on Monday that he had offered to help both nations with trade if they agreed to de-escalate.
Amid boycott calls from Indians, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced his support for Pakistan in his address after chairing a Cabinet meeting in Ankara. Erdogan said that Ankara will continue to back the "brotherly people of Pakistan" in good and bad times.
With last-minute U.S. mediation, cooler heads prevailed between India and Pakistan. But a flare-up is inevitable.
Modi's first public comments since Indian armed forces launched strikes on what New Delhi said were "terrorist camps" across the border last week indicated a hardening of India's position on ties with its neighbor, which were icy even before the latest fighting.