Us helps the broker armistice between India and Pakistan: NPR

Lahore, Pakistan – after days of escalation of hostility between nuclear armed India and Pakistan, President Trump announced on Saturday that the United States conveyed an immediate ceasefire. It initially brought the most serious intensification of the fights between the two nuclear competitors to war since 1971.

“Congratulations to both countries to use common sense and great intelligence,” he said In a post Truth on the platform. Minutes later, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said in a statement That he and Vice President Vance had been in contact with the top officials of the two countries in the past two days, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi from India and Shehbaz Sharif from Pakistan.

India's Foreign Minister Vikram Misri confirmed the news in a short press conference and told the journalists: “It was agreed that both sides would stop from 5 p.m. Standard time from 5 p.m.

But only hours after the ceasefire was announced, the residents of a large city in the Indian Kashmir reported to hear explosions and lightning through the sky. It was unclear whether the explosions were a collapse of the ceasefire or a violation. Pakistani and Indian officials have not yet commented.

The ceasefire announcements came after a day of careful violence – India announced that it had hit Pakistani military air bases early Saturday, including one of the most important bases near the capital Islamabad – an escalation that Pakistan could not ignore.

Pakistan announced his own operation, “iron wall”, a rough translation of the sentence, “,”Bunyan Marsus,“From the Muslim Holy Book, the Koran.” This operation that we started today – everything will end in any way. It all depends on what India wants, “said Pakistani Foreign Minister and deputy prime minister. Ishaq dar, Conversation with local news channels Geo. Soldiers fired in India and cheered projectiles.

The recent round of tension began after armed men opened the fire on tourists in the Kashmir held by India. Kill 26 people At the end of April. India said the group who claimed that responsibility was a deputy for the Pakistani army. Pakistan denied every connection.

Start overnight on Wednesday, India began military strikes The use of rockets and then drones against Pakistan in what it said was retaliation for the April attack. Since then, the two countries had exchanged fire every night. More than 70 people were killed on both sides, most of them in Kashmir, a Himalaya territory between India and Pakistan and both.

It is not clear what both countries agreed to a ceasefire. Misri, the Indian Foreign Minister, said the two sides would speak again on Monday.

However, Reuters reported that a number of measures that both sides had announced after the militant attack of April 22nd A decades of water contract With Pakistan, which shares six South Asian rivers between them.

In a way, the ceasefire surprised many.

Intervent the USA

Washington had intervened in earlier escalations in South Asia more robust to end hostility. But on Thursday there were hardly any expectations that America would come with an intensity afterwards Vice President JD Vance told Fox News: “What we can do is try to encourage these people to de -escalate a little, but we will not get involved in the middle of a war that is basically nothing in our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it.”

But Abdullah Khan, analyst at the Pakistani Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, said NPR that the United States seemed to be observed and waiting. “Ultimately, when they thought the situation escalated,” he said, Washington, “intervened both directly and through their Arab allies. Then they finally convinced both parties to duck for an armistice.”

Khan said that both Pakistan and India could now sell this ceasefire as a victory for their side: in Pakistan, a much smaller country as India, the military could prove that it had not taken care of its powerful neighbors. And India was able to tell his citizens that Pakistan had been taught a lesson.

And both countries, said Khan, could not afford to continue. India tries to conquer the production, try to move companies from China when Trump's tariffs come into force.

Pakistan “has currently confronted its own problems, the economic problems and the wave of terrorism at home,” said Khan, referring to active conflicts against separatists in his western province and against Pro-Talibanian militant on his border with Afghanistan. “Both countries have their problems, which also forced them to listen very easily to those who came to save facials,” he said.

No matter that he said, South Asian breathed a sigh of collective relief. “Everyone is happy that it ended,” he said.

Bilal Kucay contributed to the reporting from Srinagar, India. Diaa Hadid provided the reporting from Mumbai and Omkar KHandar from Neu -Delhi, India.