Behind Indo-Pakistani Ceasefire

India and Pakistan did not allow the tensions between their two sides to escalate when they agreed to a ceasefire on May 10 and left the doors open for talks aimed at ironing out differences and queries pertaining to terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pahalgam, in which 26 civilians, including a Nepali, were killed. The accord came four days after the two sides resorted to strikes and counterstrikes at each other’s military installations. Escalation of the fighting was prevented when New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to the ceasefire. India’s Operation Sindoor and Pakistan’s Bunyan al-Marsus thrust engaged for about a week, even as foreign governments condemned the terrorist attacks on civilians but asked both Pakistan and India to exercise restraint to ensure that things did not go out of hand.