India and Pakistan ceasefire shaken by overnight border fighting in disputed Kashmir region

ISLAMABAD – A ceasefire to extremity the struggle betwixt India and Pakistan was shaken by overnight border warring successful the disputed Kashmir region.

People connected some sides of the Line of Control, which divides the territory, reported dense exchanges of occurrence betwixt Indian and Pakistani troops. The warring subsided by Sunday morning.

The 2 countries agreed to a truce a time earlier aft talks to defuse the astir superior subject confrontation betwixt them successful decades pursuing a weapon massacre of tourists that India blames connected Pakistan, which denies the charge.

As portion of the ceasefire, the nuclear-armed neighbors agreed to instantly halt each firing and subject enactment connected land, successful the aerial and astatine sea. They accused each different of repeatedly violating the woody conscionable hours later.

Drones were spotted Saturday nighttime implicit Indian-controlled Kashmir and the occidental authorities of Gujarat according to Indian officials.

In the Poonch country of Indian-controlled Kashmir, radical said the aggravated shelling from the past fewer days had traumatized them.

“Most radical ran arsenic shells were being fired,” said assemblage pupil Sosan Zehra who returned location Sunday. “It was wholly chaotic."

In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir’s Neelum Valley, which is 3 kilometers from the Line of Control, radical said determination were exchanges of occurrence and dense shelling aft the ceasefire began.

Resident Mohammad Zahid said: “We were blessed astir the announcement but, erstwhile again, the concern feels uncertain.”

U.S. President Donald Trump was the archetypal to station astir the deal, announcing it connected his Truth Social platform. Indian and Pakistani officials confirmed the quality soon after.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level gathering connected Sunday with apical authorities and subject officials.

India, dissimilar Pakistan, has not said thing astir Trump oregon the U.S. since the woody was announced. Nor has India acknowledged anyone beyond its subject interaction with the Pakistanis.

Both armies person engaged successful regular warring since Wednesday on the rugged and mountainous Line of Control, which is marked by razor ligament coils, watchtowers and bunkers that snake crossed foothills populated by villages, tangled bushes and forests.

They person routinely blamed the different for starting the skirmishes portion insisting they were lone retaliating.

India and Pakistan's 2 apical subject officials are owed to talk again connected Monday.

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Hussain reported from Srinagar, India.

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