U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire after U.S.-mediated talks. Neither of these countries immediately confirmed an agreement.
It was a missile strike in the worst confrontation in decades, weeks of hostile hostile hostile operations between drone strikes and artillery fires. Tensions have happened since the shooting last month, India blamed Pakistan.
Trump said on his Truth Society platform that he is pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire. “Congratulations to both countries on their use of common sense and great intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
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Pakistan’s foreign minister said earlier on Saturday that his country would consider relegation if India stops further attacks. However, Ishaq Dar warned that if India launches any strike, “our response will follow.”
Dahl told Pakistan’s geographic news that he also conveyed the message to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who contacted him after Rubio’s earlier conversation with New Delhi.
“Our response is because our patience has reached its limit. If they stop here, we will consider stopping,” Dahl added.
India said it targeted Pakistani air force bases after Islamabad launched several high-speed missiles into the country’s military and civilian infrastructure earlier on Saturday.
Pakistan earlier said it intercepted most missiles and conducted a retaliatory strike in India.
Rubio spoke with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and stressed: “Both sides need to identify ways to degrade and re-establish direct communication to avoid misestimation to avoid misestimation,” State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce said Saturday, and provided support to promote “effective discussions.”
India said it is committed to “degrading” Indian military held a press conference in New Delhi, saying Pakistan targets medical facilities and schools in three aerial bases in Kashmir, which it controls in India.
“A proper response was expressed to Pakistan’s actions,” said Indian Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.
Wing commander Vyomika Singh said that as long as Pakistan goes back and forth, India is committed to “not gradually propaganda”. However, the observation of Pakistan’s ground forces mobilization forward to the area “indicating the offensive intention further escalates the situation.”
She added: “The Indian armed forces are still in high state of operational readiness.”
Singh said India “has only conducted precise strikes on determined military targets” including technical infrastructure and radar sites.
Pakistan’s military said it used medium-range Fateh missiles to attack Indian missile storage facilities and air bases in the cities of Pathankot and Udhampur.
The Associated Press cannot independently verify all actions attributed to Pakistan or India.
Army spokesman Lieutenant General Ahmad Sharif said Pakistan’s air force assets were safe after the Indian attack.
Tensions at Pakistan Air Force Bases Targeted by India’s strikes since the popular Kashmir attack in India-controlled Kashmir on April 22, Kashmir has attacked 26 civilians, mostly Indian Hindu tourists. New Delhi blames Pakistan for supporting Pakistan in support of the attack, and the charges in Islamabad have been rejected.
According to a Pakistan military spokesperson, the Indian missiles on Saturday targeted Nur Khan Air Base in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, the Murid Air Base in Chakwal City and the Rafiki Air Base in Zhang District, Punjab Province in eastern Punjab Province.
There was no immediate report on the strike or the incidents of its residents in the densely populated Rawalpindi.
Pakistan celebrates India’s missile launch.
“Thank God, we finally responded to India’s aggression,” said Muhammad Ashraf. There were joyful scenes in Peshawar and Karachi.
Indian-controlled Kashmir residents said they heard explosions from multiple places, including the two big cities in Srinagar and Jamu and the town of Garrison in Udangpur.
“The explosion we heard today was different from the explosion we heard in the last two nights of the drone attack,” said Shesh Paul Vaid, a former police officer and resident of the Chamu. “It looks like a war here.”
Waid said explosions were heard from the area of the military base, adding that the target of the Army site was. Residents living near Srinagar City Airport are also air force bases, he said, shocked by the explosion of the jets and the sound of thriving.
Mohammed Yasin, a resident of Srinagar, said: “I was awake but the explosion shocked my children. They started crying.
Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst at the Indian International Crisis Group, said that even if they have not marked it as a country, the two countries are in the war.
“It has become a ruthless military terminology competition with neither side having obvious strategic ultimate goal,” Donthi said. “Finding an exit or an off-road vehicle will be challenging.”
India and Pakistan have already conducted strikes and heavy cross-border fires, which have caused civilian casualties on both sides in a few days.
In Indian-controlled Kashmir, buildings were destroyed or damaged, where powerful explosions were stripped of roofs, windows and walls, and houses with holes.
Villagers and rescue workers in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir region screened out the rubble of houses that had been bombarded overnight on Friday while carrying the dead. Others investigated the ruins.
