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India and Pakistan said on Saturday that they had accepted a ceasefire to end the worst fights between the two nuclear weapons powers in more than two decades.
President Donald Trump claimed the merit of the agreement in a social media position.
“After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am happy to announce that India and Pakistan have accepted a complete and immediate ceasefire,” Trump wrote on his social social portal. “Congratulations to the two countries for having used common sense and great intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this question! ”
Pakistan was the first of the two countries in South Asia to confirm Trump’s declaration. Ishaq Dar, Pakistani Minister for Foreign Affairs, wrote in an article on social networks that countries had “accepted a cease-fire with immediate effect”.
“Pakistan has always sought peace and security in the region, without compromising its sovereignty and territorial integrity!”, He wrote.
India has also said that it had agreed to stop the air war that has experienced missile exchanges in recent days.
Vikram Misri, Indian Foreign Secretary of Foreign, said in a briefing in New Delhi: “The Director General of Military Operations in Pakistan called the Director of Military Operations of India at 3:35 pm earlier this afternoon.”
“It has been agreed between them that the two parties would stop all fights and military action on land and in the air and in the sea with effect from 5:00 pm today.”
He added: “Instructions have been given on both sides to give this understanding effect.”
India pulled missiles and launched drone strikes in Pakistan this week in retaliation for a firearm attack by what it said to be terrorists supported by Pakistan in Pahalgam, in cashmere on April 22, which killed 25 Indian civilians and a Nepalese.
According to Pakistan, the targets of India included air bases deep in the country, including near its military seat in Rawalpindi.
India said that Pakistan had started to mobilize troops to the border, which makes it fear that the conflict in the air can degenerate into a wider war on the ground.
The two parties claim that their civilians were killed by the other side.
Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, said in a statement that within 48 hours of the ceasefire, he and vice-president JD Vance had engaged with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in an offer to end the fighting.
The talks also involved the national security advisers of the two countries, Ajit Doval and Asim Malik from Pakistan in India.
“I am happy to announce that the governments of India and Pakistan have agreed with an immediate cease-fire and starting talks on a wide range of questions on a neutral site,” said Rubio.
“We congratulate the Prime Ministers Modi and Sharif on their wisdom, their prudence and their state activity in the choice of the path of peace.”
Earlier, the State Department published readings of Rubio calls with the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart DAR in which he said that the two parties “needed[ed] Identify methods to defuse and restore direct communication to avoid a calculation error ”.
Friday, during a call with the chief of staff of the Pakistan army, Asim Munnir, Rubio “offered us help to start constructive talks in order to avoid future conflicts”, according to the reading of the State Department of Call.
