India and Pakistan Agree to US-Mediated Cease-Fire

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Trump said the two nations had agreed to a ‘full and immediate ceasefire’ after the nuclear-armed powers came to blows after a terrorist attack in Kashmir.

India and Pakistan have agreed to the terms of a U.S.-mediated cease-fire following three days of cross-border shelling, drone attacks, and missile strikes.

President Donald Trump said that the two nations had agreed to a “full and immediate ceasefire” in a statement on social media.

The two nuclear powers came to blows on May 7, in their most serious confrontation in decades. The conflict stemmed from an attack in an Indian-controlled part of Kashmir in which terrorists opened fire on a group of tourists and killed 26 people.

A relatively unknown group called the Kashmir Resistance claimed responsibility for the attack, and India suggested the group was an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist group that has in the past attacked the Indian military and police.

Pakistan has denied the allegation and suggested the attack was an Indian false flag operation.

Islamabad and New Delhi have periodically come to blows over control of Kashmir since 1947, when India and Pakistan were first divided and granted independence by the British Empire. At that time, Pakistan was created as a nation for India’s Muslims, in a similar manner to how Britain divided Israel and Palestine in 1948.

Pakistan’s foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, announced the cease-fire in a statement to local news and added that Saudi Arabia and Turkey played a role in facilitating the deal.

“Pakistan and India have agreed to a ceasefire with immediate effect,” Dar wrote on X. “Pakistan has always strived for peace and security in the region, without compromising on its sovereignty and territorial integrity!”

Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, meanwhile, said that military chiefs from both countries spoke in the afternoon and would speak again on Sunday.

“It was agreed between them that both sides would stop all firing and military action on land, and in the air and sea. … Instructions have been given on both sides to give effect to this understanding,” Misri said.

More than 60 people have been killed in the clashes, which threatened to destabilize the subcontinent with all-out war between nuclear-armed powers.

The fighting began on May 7 when India carried out strikes on what it said was terrorist infrastructure in Pakistani Kashmir and Pakistan.

By Andrew Thornebrooke

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