Islamabad:
Senior military officials of Pakistan and India on Monday held their first round of conversations through a direct line and agreed to keep the fire agreed on Saturday after five days of war.
As part of the Alto El Fuego Agreement, negotiated by the United States, the military operations of the Director General (DGMO) of Major General of Pakistan, Kashif Abdullah, and his Indian counterpart, Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai spoke to each other.
“The problems related to continuing with the commitment that both parties should not shoot a single shot or initiate any aggressive and hostile action with each other,” said the Indian army. “It was also agreed that both parties consider immediate measures to guarantee the reduction of borders and forward areas,” he added.
Far from the rhetoric of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first speech after the conflict, the Indian military official pressed to keep the fire. Pakistan, on the other hand, confirmed the contact but did not provide details. The authorities said both parties would have a second round in the next 48 hours.
The high fire of the United States between the two nuclear powers remained intact during the night. The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, while announcing the details of the Alto El Fuego, had said that both parties would begin conversations about a variety of broader issues in a neutral place.
Modi hinted on the conversations on Monday, but insisted that they would focus on “terrorism” and “background part that was under the control of Pakistan”, a reference to Azad Jammu Cashmira (AJK). The statement meant that India had accepted the conversations, while Modi’s approach to terrorism and Ajk was an attempt to appease his domestic audience.
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said that the issue of Kashmir Treaty and Indo Waters (IWT) would be on the priority list of Pakistan, every time the conversations with India are made.
Hours before Modi’s speech, where he said that “the Sindoor operation” was only suspended, the media wing of the Pakistani army, public relations between services (ISPR), issued a statement, warning India that any future attempt to threaten Pakistan’s territorial integrity would invoke a response of being a being.
The last climb between India and Pakistan began on April 22 when 26 people were killed in illegally occupied Indians Jammu and Kashmir (Iiojk) of Pahalgam. Without providing any evidence, India immediately blamed Pakistan for the attack.
India also took hostile measures on April 23, maintaining the 65-year IWT in suspense, canceling visas of Pakistani citizens, closing the border crossing of Wagah-Attari, closing the high commission of Pakistan in New Delhi and drastically cutting the diplomatic force in the missions of the other.
Pakistan denied the Indian accusation without evidence. However, the National Security Committee (NSC) also took contrary measures, including the arrest of any trade with India, the closure of Pakistani airspace for Indian airplanes and others.
The situation intensified even more in the early hours of May 7, when the missiles hit six cities in Punjab and Ajk, destroying several mosques. Dozens of innocent civilians, including women and children and the elderly, were martyred in the night attack.
The Pakistani forces presented a driven but very forceful response to the enemy, demolishing their five combat planes, including three raffles: the pride of the Indian Air Force. During the next two days, India sent swarms from Israeli manufacturing drones that were also shot down by the Pakistani army.
In an even more increase in the early hours of Saturday, India shot missiles to some Pakistani air bases. Hours later, Pakistan launched the Bunyanum Marsoos operation, destroying and damaging 26 Indian military facilities: missile storage, air bases and other objectives.
At night, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that after the diplomacy of the whole night, both Pakistan and India had agreed the fire. Minutes later, Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed the development and then to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of India.
Trump said Monday that the intervention of the United States avoided a “bad nuclear war” between the two neighbors with nuclear weapons, and added that the United States was ready to help both counties following the high fire agreement that its administration helped to negotiate.
“We stopped a nuclear conflict. I think it could have been a bad nuclear war, millions of people could have been killed. So I am very proud of that,” Trump told the White House journalists. “Commerce is a great reason why they stopped fighting,” Trump added.
(With agencies contributions)
