✕ Close Explosions heard over Srinagar in Kashmir hours after ceasefire announced
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The ceasefire between India and Pakistan appeared to hold as no violations were reported overnight.
The two sides had accused each other of breaking the truce Saturday evening as explosions rockedKashmir barely hours after a deal was announced following US-mediated talks.
While the US had initially said the escalation between the two nuclear powers was “none of our business”, CNN reported that vice president JD Vance called prime minister Narendra Modi after receiving “alarming intelligence” about the conflict.
President Donald Trump hailed the truce and said he would now work “to see if, after a ‘thousand years’, a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir”.
"Millions of good and innocent people could have died!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Your legacy is greatly enhanced by your brave actions.”
Soon after the ceasefire was announced, Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri accused Pakistan of breaching it.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry rejected the claim, accusing India of firing first and saying its forces were responding with “responsibility and restraint”.
In Srinagar, The Independent producer Mohammad Dawood reported, residents described feeling “like the city was being bombed”. Projectiles were also seen over Jammu to the south and explosions were heard in the western state of Gujarat.
zqwz on May 10th, 2025 at 18:37 UTC »
I think Pakistan want to make drones in the air as the new normal similar to how hamas established regular rocket attack as the new normal. And it got widely accepted as the normal around the world.
So, Pakistan maybe seeing that as long as India's defense system is able to shoot down their drones its alirght. This also helps them learn the nuances of Indias air defense system, its response time and its loopholes, which can be later used for a real attack.
BROWN-MUNDA_ on May 10th, 2025 at 18:20 UTC »
Dude india don't want to escalate with Pakistan but I think pakistan definitely want repeat of another 1971
multigrain_panther on May 10th, 2025 at 17:54 UTC »
Not sure what there is to "accuse" as much as "acknowledge". The attacks happened on the Indian side, not the Pakistani side. Or will the grand propaganda machinery of the Pakistani government work overtime to spin this too as "another false flag operation" to their citizens?