NEW DELHI/TOKYO — After days of heightened hostilities, India and Pakistan agreed to an “immediate ceasefire” on Saturday, a deal that U.S. President Donald Trump has now claimed was reached between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors after he used trade threats.
The latest conflict was sparked by an attack that killed 26 civilians in India-administered Kashmir on April 22 and subsequent days of skirmish between the two sides. The tensions turned into a war-like situation last Wednesday when India launched missiles targeting what it called “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Since then, both militaries escalated the exchange of fire, from cross-border gunfire and shelling, to drone and missile attacks against each other before the ceasefire announcement came on Saturday.
