India, Kashmir and Pakistan
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Pakistan vowed retaliation after India launched missiles toward its neighbor in response to a deadly terrorist attack in the disputed region of Kashmir.
India and Pakistan have fought several wars over Kashmir, but the two sides’ active nuclear arsenals significantly raise the stakes of any future conflict.
Pakistan said 26 people were killed in the overnight assault, which followed a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last month. Aurangzeb warned that emotions were “running high” inside Pakistan after the air strikes.
The first word of the truce came from President Trump, who announced that the two countries had reached a "full and immediate ceasefire," after talks mediated by the U.S.
The killing of 26 tourists in Kashmir on April 22 has triggered a sharp escalation in tensions between India and Pakistan, bringing the two nuclear-armed rivals dangerously close to open conflict.
India says it hit nine targets within Pakistani territory in pre-dawn strikes as crisis explodes with heavy shelling along the Kashmir border
Pakistan’s leader condemned the strikes and called it an act of war. India said it struck infrastructure used by militants linked to last month’s massacre of tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
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