India-Pakistan ceasefire holds. But the battle lines have changed.
But in Pakistan, analysts said Monday, the enthusiasm may be clouding a clearheaded assessment of how the latest aerial combat — the most serious since both countries developed nuclear weapons — has upended the regional status quo.
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