India has only ‘paused’ military action against Pakistan, Modi says

Narendra Modi has said India has lone “paused” its subject enactment against Pakistan and would “retaliate connected its ain terms” to immoderate attacks, aft a ceasefire brought escalating hostilities betwixt the 2 countries to a standstill astatine the weekend.

In his archetypal code since attacks began betwixt India and Pakistan – culminating successful some sides launching missiles astatine each other’s cardinal subject bases and airfields connected Saturday – the Indian premier curate said helium was “monitoring each measurement of Pakistan”.

Donald Trump announced the ceasefire betwixt the 2 countries connected Saturday, halting fears that the 2 nuclear-armed nations were hurtling towards all-out warfare for the archetypal clip successful decades.

India had launched its onslaught archetypal connected Pakistan connected Wednesday successful retaliation for a deadly militant onslaught successful April successful Indian-administered Kashmir, which it blamed connected Pakistan-backed panic groups. It escalated into drone and rocket strikes by some sides, and deadly shelling on the disputed borderline dividing Kashmir.

Both Trump and Pakistani officials credited the US caput of state, Marco Rubio, and the vice-president, JD Vance, with brokering bid betwixt the 2 countries, aft hours of aggravated negotiations with India and Pakistan.

But Modi made nary notation to the US’s relation successful the ceasefire. Instead helium maintained India’s enactment that it was Pakistan who had archetypal reached retired to India’s caput of subject operations connected Saturday for a ceasefire, and that it was Pakistan who had called connected the planetary assemblage for help.

In comments astatine the White House connected Monday, Trump claimed the US had “stopped a atomic conflict” successful its interventions with India and Pakistan. He said: “I deliberation it could person been a atrocious atomic war, millions of radical could person been killed. So I’m precise arrogant of that.”

Modi’s code besides alluded to the atomic menace that had hung implicit past week’s escalating tensions, adding that successful immoderate aboriginal struggle with Pakistan, they would not tolerate “nuclear blackmailing”.

On Monday, Pakistan information officials said 1 of the presumption of the ceasefire was an statement that aboriginal talks would beryllium held successful a 3rd country, with the United Arab Emirates floated arsenic a imaginable venue.

In his speech, Modi made notation to imaginable aboriginal negotiations but said that “if we speech to Pakistan, it volition beryllium astir coercion lone … it volition beryllium astir Pakistan-occupied Kashmir”.

By Monday, it appeared arsenic if the fragile ceasefire would proceed to hold. Along the enactment of control, the disputed borderline dividing Kashmir betwixt India and Pakistan, each the cross-border shelling and aggressions of past week showed nary motion of resuming. India besides reopened 32 airports crossed northbound India that had been unopen down arsenic cross-border hostilities escalated.

The Indian service said successful a connection connected Sunday night: “The nighttime remained mostly peaceful crossed Jammu and Kashmir, and different areas on the planetary border.” In a telephone telephone betwixt subject officials from India and Pakistan, some sides besides agreed to trim unit beingness astatine the border.

In Indian-administered Kashmir, adept teams were dispatched to the borderline areas to defuse unexploded bombs, arsenic tens of thousands of radical who had been evacuated from their villages successful borderline areas returned home.