The ceasefire had been expected to bring a swift end to weeks of escalating clashes triggered by the mass shooting of tourists last month that India blames on Pakistan.

In the aftermath of a negotiated ceasefire between India and Pakistan over violence across the Kashmiri border in May 2025, a graphic attributed to CNN ( archived) purportedly displaying "India-Pakistan Conflict Statistics" received more than 130,000 views on X before the account deleted the claim.

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.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has issued a strong six-point response to claims made by US President Donald Trump and his administration concerning the recent India-Pakistan ceasefire. The MEA refuted assertions of US mediation,

An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Pulwama on Thursday morning, after the police got specific inputs on the terrorists' hideout.

India's decision to try to prevent the next tranche of the bailout to Islamabad was more about optics then, rather than a desire for any tangible outcome, say experts. As per the country's own observations, the fund had limited ability to do something about the loan, and was "circumscribed by procedural and technical formalities".

Mohammad Iqbal was working the nightshift at a power plant when he got a frantic call from his family saying artillery shells were exploding around their home.