India, Pak extend ceasefire understanding as two nations agree to 'continue confidence-building measures'

As tensions ratcheted up over the last week of fighting, Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India, the country’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar told CNN on Monday.

The ceasefire had been expected to bring a swift end to weeks of escalating clashes triggered by the mass shooting of tourists last month that India blames on Pakistan.

Follow The Hindu’s latest developments on the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan after Operation Sindoor.

India and Pakistan engaged in the most intense fighting in decades with four days of escalating conflict that included fighter jets, missiles and drones packed with explosives. It ended almost as abruptly as it began.

Top military operations officials of New Delhi and Islamabad spoke on hotline for the first time since New Delhi conducted Operation Sindoor to destroy nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (POK).