After days of heavy firefights, calm reported along Indian and Pakistan borders

NEW DELHI – Indian and Pakistani authorities said connected Monday that determination were nary reported incidents of firing overnight on the heavy militarized portion betwixt their countries, the archetypal clip successful caller days that the 2 nations were not shooting astatine each other.

India and Pakistan connected Saturday reached an understanding to halt each subject actions connected land, successful the aerial and astatine the sea, successful a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to halt escalating hostilities betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed rivals that threatened determination peace.

“The nighttime remained mostly peaceful crossed Jammu and Kashmir, and different areas on the planetary border,” the Indian service said successful a statement, adding that nary incidents had been reported.

Senior subject officials from India and Pakistan are scheduled to talk aboriginal Monday to measure if ceasefire was holding. There were fears it would not clasp aft they accused each different of violations conscionable hours aft it was announced.

Local authorities officials successful Pakistan-administered Kashmir reported nary incidents of cross-border firing on the Line of Control and said that civilians displaced by caller skirmishes betwixt Pakistani and Indian forces were returning to their homes.

Pakistan’s subject spokesperson, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif, said precocious Sunday that Pakistan remains committed to upholding the ceasefire and volition not beryllium the archetypal to interruption it.

He besides confirmed that elder subject officials from some nations would talk connected by telephone connected Monday.

The militaries of the 2 countries person been engaged successful 1 of their astir superior confrontations successful decades since past Wednesday, erstwhile India struck targets wrong Pakistan it said were affiliated with militants liable for the massacre of 26 tourists successful Indian-controlled Kashmir. The tourists, mostly Indian Hindu men, were brutally killed successful beforehand of their families successful the meadow municipality of Pahalgam past month.

India accused Pakistan of backing the militants who carried retired the massacre, a complaint Islamabad denied. The incidental archetypal led to a spat of tit-for-tat diplomatic measures by some the nations, sending their bilateral ties to a adjacent historical low.

The 2 expelled each other’s diplomats, unopen their airspace, onshore borders, and suspended a important h2o treaty.

After Wednesday's strikes successful Pakistan, some sides exchanged dense fires on their de facto borderline successful the restive Kashmir portion followed by rocket and drone strikes into each other’s territories, chiefly targeting subject installations and airbases. Dozens of civilians were killed connected some the sides successful dense shelling, the 2 countries said.

The Indian subject connected Sunday for the archetypal clip claimed its strikes into Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan past week killed much than 100 militants, including salient leaders.

Lt. Gen. Rajiv Ghai, the manager wide of India’s subject operations, who volition beryllium talking to his Pakistani counterpart connected Monday, said India’s equipped forces struck 9 militant infrastructure and grooming facilities, including sites of the Lashkar-e-Taiba radical that India blames for carrying retired large militant strikes successful India and the disputed portion of Kashmir.

Ghai said astatine slightest 35 to 40 Pakistani soldiers were killed successful clashes on the Line of Control, the de facto borderline that divides the disputed Kashmir portion betwixt India and Pakistan. Five Indian soldiers were besides killed, helium said.

Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar connected Thursday said his country’s equipped forces had killed 40 to 50 Indian soldiers on the Line of Control. Pakistani subject besides claimed to person changeable down 5 Indian combatant jets and inflected dense losses connected Indian subject installations by targeting 26 locations successful India.

The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the claims made by India and Pakistan.

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