It seemed that the fragile ceasefire between India and Pakistan largely held the first all day after some initial skirmish, because both countries turned on Sunday to come out in a four -day conflict.
President Trump announced on Saturday that both parties agreed to a ceasefire with the help of American mediation. This brought a military confrontation that included drones, rockets and intense shelling and escalating, with strikes on military bases in both countries.
Mr. Trump followed Congratulations On Sunday, praise of both sides for “having the strength, wisdom and strength to fully know and understand that it is time to stop contemporary aggression that could lead to death and destruction of so many and so much.”
He added that he would increase the business “substantially” with both countries and that he would work with them to see if “the solution could be arrived” to resolve its seven -year dispute over the region of Kashmir.
Pakistan, a one -time close ally of the United States, which disappeared in importance, appreciated the American role of the mediator. However, in India, the public descriptions of her role in mediation seemed to affect some sensitive places politically.
The Indian government has long framed its relations with Pakistan as a strictly bilateral matter, and in hours after the announcement of the ceasefire of India, it stated that it was negotiated directly between Indian and Pakistani officials.
India failed to refer to the American role, probably partly because it hoped to prevent any domestic perception, that it has stopped its fight against a neighbor and archenemia under external pressure.
On Sunday, a higher Indian official offered the timeline of the conflict that recognized the discussion with American officials, but described India as its own decision.
In interviews with American officials and diplomats from other countries, the official stated that India had stuck to a single report: that it would respond to every Pakistani attack of counterattack.
After Pakistan sent a wave of drones to India on Saturday, Indian forces hit hard on some of Pakistan’s key military foundations, the official said. At that moment Pakistan expressed his willingness In order to negotiate interviews through military leaders, the official said, and both parties agree to stop shooting.
Some supporters of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast a ceasefire as a victory due to the power of the Indian Armed Forces. Pakistan, as they claimed, was brought to a point where he was forced to look for a ceasefire.
The Indian Air Force, in the post of social media, said he had made his mission “accuracy and professionalism”.
The triumphal memes were less reserved and billboards appeared overnight. “Health of the Indian Army – our pride, our protectors,” one read one.
Some Indian officials said Indian conflict actions illustrated a harder attitude that the country took terrorism for Modi. India hit Pakistan after promising a serious reaction to a terrorist attack in the Indian Kashmir, which killed 26 civilians April 22.
India accused Pakistan of support for attackers-Pakistan rejected any role-and two weeks later launched her cross-border military campaign.
Also in Pakistan, many of them threw the end of confrontation as a victory for their country and the army.
Geo News broadcast shots of civilians who shower petals for military tanks and placed the garlands around the neck of soldiers in Sialkot, the city scarred by previous military conflicts between India and Pakistan.
Above Farooq Parach, a prominent publicist in Karachi, he said that the public mood reflected the sense of trust that could not be seen in years.
“Perhaps Pakistan has just won his first ever war against India,” he said in an interview. “It successfully lasted the main Indian offensive and scored several vital military and diplomatic victories. India, on the other hand, has very little for his gambit.”
Sabir Shah, a political analyst based in Lahore, said that the Pakistan Air Force showed operational superiority.
“Indian losses when it comes to military hardware is certainly much higher,” he said. Pakistan claims that five Indian aircraft have been reduced. India did not recognize the loss of aircraft, but evidence suggests that according to the accounts of eyewitnesses and some government officials, it has lost at least two.
When both sides combined their profits and loss of the other, there was an uncertainty about whether a ceasefire would. Soon after it was declared on Saturday, the news of cross -border shelling. The situation, however, seemed calm since Sunday night.
Sajad Shafi, a local politician from the border town of Uri on the Indian side of Kashmir, said that Sunday was “peaceful”.
“There is a huge feeling of relief among people,” he said.
But while civilians desperately tried to return to their homes, Mr. Shafi urged them to stay in relief camps the next day without caution.
“You can’t believe this ceasefire,” he said. “You never know what’s next.”
Queen Raj Messages from Lucknow in India contributed.
