Within hours of foreign secretary Vikram Misri announcing a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, reports of violations have cast a shadow over the fragile truce. The ceasefire came into effect at 5 PM, Indian time.
The next few hours will be critical in determining whether both parties are truly committed to dialogue—or if this ceasefire is destined to become just another short-lived pause in a long-standing conflict.
Within hours of foreign secretary Vikram Misri announcing a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, reports of violations have cast a shadow over the fragile truce. The ceasefire came into effect at 5 PM, Indian time.
Talks between India and Pakistan are scheduled for Monday at a "neutral venue’’ but the question is whether the ceasefire will hold till then.
The next few hours will be critical in determining whether both parties are truly committed to dialogue—or if this ceasefire is destined to become just another short-lived pause in a long-standing conflict.
However, the deadly missiles and drones that were lobbed a few hours before the ceasefire agreement have stopped. But the Indian military has reported intermittent firing along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector hours after the ceasefire came into effect.
The violations were serious enough for Misri to come back to tell reporters just before midnight, and accuse Pakistan of walking back on its commitment.
“There had been repeated violations of the understanding arrived between the two countries today,” he said. He warned that India would “deal strongly” with the violations in response.
The announcement of the agreement was welcomed by people on both sides of the divide, especially by those living along the LoC, who were caught in the crossfire. But decades of mistrust has led to widespread skepticism and fears of the two nuclear-armed neighbours plunging into war.
The US, presumably the chief broker of the ceasefire deal, will closely monitor the situation and use its vast influence in the region to ensure that the agreement is not broken. While minor infringements will continue for a while, the danger of the two nuclear-armed neighbours getting into another hot war has receded.
CNN reported after the announcement that "a core group of top US officials — including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State and interim national security adviser Marco Rubio and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — had been closely monitoring the escalating conflict between India and Pakistan when, on Friday morning, the US received alarming intelligence.’’
What the alarming information was is not known, but it led to Vice President JD Vance, who was recently in India with his family, to get on the phone and speak directly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
However, the Trump administration, while making sure that India and Pakistan agree to a ceasefire, did not draft the agreement.
That was done by India and Pakistan. CNN added - "But from the US perspective, Vance라이브 바카라 call to Modi was a critical moment.’’
While New Delhi has not talked much about the US role, Pakistan라이브 바카라 Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was profuse in his praise for the US and its role in facilitating the ceasefire.