India and Pakistan have reached an agreement for “a high fire with immediate effect,” both parties have assured on Saturday after four days of clashes that have caused dozens of dead. However, a few hours after the pact, Indian Foreign Secretary, Vikram Misri, has denounced that Pakistan has violated him with attacks on the cities of Srinagar and Jammu, close to the border. From Islamabad they have denied these accusations.
Shortly before the cessation of hostilities, the crisis had entered an even more dangerous phase with a new wave of cross attacks against military bases and strategic facilities. The announcement has arrived a few hours after the two nuclear powers accused each other of having started this last round of bombings, amid the worst escalation of violence in the region in recent decades.
Just before the announcement was released, Donald Trump has affirmed that the “total and immediate” fire had been agreed. The president of the United States, the social network of his property, in a publication in which he has said that the agreement has arrived “after a long night of conversations with the mediation of the United States,” he informs Iker SixDedos From Washington. India and Pakistan confirmed shortly after the news, in an apparent coordinated action, although neither of the two countries mentioned the mediation role that the Trump administration highlighted in the negotiation.
After the announcement of the US President, Pakistani Foreign Minister Muhamad Ishaq Dar, that “Pakistan and India have agreed to a high fire with immediate effect.” “Pakistan has always advocated peace and security in the region, without putting its sovereignty or territorial integrity at risk,” he added.
In the same line, his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, has expressed himself, who stressed that “India and Pakistan have achieved an understanding to stop the shots and military action.” “India has consistently maintained a firm and immovable posture against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. It will continue to do so,” he said. Minutes later, a Government spokesman for New Delhi has appeared in a brief press conference without questions in which he has affirmed that it was Islamabad who initiated the conversations for a high fire, in which “both parties agreed that all the shots and military actions by land, air and sea would stop.”
The announcement of Alto El Fuego has arrived hours after Pakistan began the Bunyan Marsoos operation – name taken from the Qur’an that alludes to a firm and cohesive structure – with attacks against several Indian military bases. Islamabad ensures that New Delhi had bombarded at the early morning with at least three military facilities. One of the objectives was that of Nur Khan, a key base located on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital. Pakistan’s army pointed out in a statement to have responded “eye for an eye” a few hours later: he did it with short -range missiles launched against several positions in India, including the air bases of Udhampur and Pathankot, as well as against a missile warehouse.
Nueva Delhi denies having started the escalation in the morning of this Saturday and argues that its actions have been part of a retaliation for a series of pachystani attacks with drones, long -range missiles and fighters against 26 objectives in Indian territory. “It has been the actions of Pakistan that have caused the climb,” said Indian Foreign Secretary, Vikram Misri. “India has acted in self -defense, in a responsibility and measure,” he added.
Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has assured that his country has given “a forceful and coordinated response” to what he described in an official statement as an unprovoked aggression. “Today we have responded firmly and avenged blood from innocent. We are very proud of our armed forces,” he said.
Ghosts of a large -scale war
What happened during the night is already emerging as he, and revived the ghosts of a large -scale war, such as the last between the two countries, in 1999. India on Wednesday launched the so -called Sindoor operation, a campaign of missile attacks against what he described as “terrorist infrastructure” – although Islamabad says it was civil – in the Kashmir administered by Pakistan and other areas of the country. The epicenter of the conflict is the Cashmiro region, a dispute territory that has been the reason for several wars since the partition of India and Pakistan, in 1947. During this week’s clashes, the Indian bombs have reached Pakistani areas densely populated outside the territory of Kashmira for the first time since a high fire was signed in 2003.
The cross -border attacks began with Wednesday’s offensive, as retaliation of New Delhi in the Indian Kashmir, where an armed group murdered 26 tourists, all Indians except a Nepali and mostly Hindus. India attributes the authorship of the attack on Islamist groups with bases in Pakistan, a country that accuses of not exercising enough hand to stop terrorism.
Since the beginning of Wednesday’s escalation, at least 66 people have died, 37 of them in Pakistani territory and 29 on the Indian side. Most of the victims have died near the control line, the border in fact in Kashmir. In addition, more than a thousand people have been relocated to other safer areas, according to Pakistani Information Minister, Pir Mazhar Saeed Shah.
After Trump announced on Saturday El Alto El Fuego, his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has indicated that both he and the vice president of the North American country, JD Vance, have maintained contacts during the last 48 hours with high Indian and Pakistani positions. Rubio has added in his X account that New Delhi and Islamabad have agreed to “initiate conversations in a neutral place about a wide range of issues.” The Indian Ministry of Information has confirmed that the directors of the military operations departments of both armies will have a conversation on Monday to continue the negotiating efforts, although it has not specified where the meeting will take place.
For their part, the Foreign Ministers of the G-7 and the European Union issued on Friday a joint statement in which they urged to act with “maximum moderation” and avoid any step that endangers regional stability. This Saturday, the high representative of the EU for foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, has declared that the high fire “is a vital step towards the descale” and has called to do “everything possible to guarantee compliance.”
China, Pakistan’s ally, thanked Islamabad “the containment shown” in the crisis between the two nuclear powers of southern Asia, according to a statement from the Pakistani Foreign Ministry. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry has assured that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, has reaffirmed that Beijing, as a cooperative strategic partner of Islamabad, “will continue to firmly support Pakistan in the defense of his sovereignty, territorial integrity and national independence.”
