India and Pakistan Agree to Full, Immediate Ceasefire
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Shilpak Ambule, India's high commissioner to Singapore said that "everybody is on operational alert. But that does not mean that our India growth story and focus on economy gets affected." His comments come against the backdrop of tensions between India and Pakistan,
Pakistan on Tuesday declared a staff member of the Indian High Commission here "persona non grata" after India expelled a Pakistani official working at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi for allegedly indulging in espionage.
PM Modi on Tuesday reiterated that if any terror attack struck India then the nation will fiercely respond to it at time and conditions of its own choosing.
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.
1972 — India and Pakistan sign a peace accord, renaming the ceasefire line in Kashmir as the Line of Control, a heavily fortified stretch of military outposts that divide the region between them. Both sides deploy more troops along the frontier, turning it into a heavily fortified stretch of military outposts.
New developments in the nuclear powers’ harrowing four-day conflict, along with entrenched religious nationalism on each side, could signal more frequent battles ahead.
With last-minute U.S. mediation, cooler heads prevailed between India and Pakistan. But a flare-up is inevitable.
Pakistan's army said on Tuesday that more than 50 people were killed in last week's military clashes with India which ended in a ceasefire agreed by the nuclear-armed neighbours, restoring peace to their border.