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India Today
15-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
India, Pak agree to continue reducing alert levels days after fighting pause
India and Pakistan have agreed to extend the pause on all cross-border military actions as decided by the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of both countries."Further to the understanding between the two DGMOs on 10th of May 2025, it has been decided to continue the confidence-building measures so as to reduce the alertness level. As the situation develops further, we shall intimate you," officials May 10, the DGMO of Pakistan called his Indian counterpart and asked for stopping all forms of cross-border firing. The understanding of the pause came after four days of intense cross-border strikes, drone attacks and artillery shelling between the two neighbouring countries. The tensions between the two countries escalated after the Indian Army launched Operation Sindoor on the night of May 6-7, targeting terrorist hideouts in Pakistan. As many as 100 terrorists were killed in the operation, the government said.
Economic Times
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Economic Times
Politician wanting to take credit: Shashi Tharoor slams Trump for declaring halting of Indo-Pak hostilities
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday described US President Donald Trump's announcement of halting military hostilities between India and Pakistan as "a politician wanting to take credit for something" and slammed the American leader for re-hyphenating the two South Asian countries. Asserting that he did not like the social media post of Trump announcing the cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan, Tharoor pointed out that the US president tried to make a "false equivalence" between India and Pakistan and said it was equating the victim with the perpetrator which was "shocking". Asked about Trump's announcement, Tharoor told PTI Videos, "I see it as a particular politician wanting to take credit for something and I can see that the government of India probably said 'let them take the credit if they want to', but from our point of view we have made it clear that the peace followed a request from the DGMO of Pakistan who called his Indian counterpart at 3:35 pm (Saturday) and we did not take very long to say yes because we had never wanted a long war." "We had made it very clear on May 7 that what we had done was to strike terrorist targets in reprisal for Pahalgam and the last thing that we wanted to see was the beginning of a long protracted had said at every stage, we had done our thing, we have sent a message, if you react, we will react," the MP from Thiruvananthapuram said. Clarifying that he was speaking as an individual MP, Tharoor said he did not like Trump's social media posts on the issue. Tharoor said there were four problems with Trump's message including the "false equivalence" between India and Pakistan. "You are making equivalent the victim and the perpetrator, which is really shocking. It is completely wrong to imply that as a result of this India is going to give some sort of negotiation to Pakistan. We will never negotiate to the point of a gun, we are never going to give the satisfaction to Pakistan of feeling that by unleashing a terrorist attack in Pahalgam they have somehow earned the right to negotiate with India," he said. "I don't think that Mr Trump should have in any way, shape or form implied that the Kashmiri dispute has been internationalised by the American involvement. We don't even accept that there is a dispute of that nature, Kashmir is an integral part of are not interested at all in internationalising the dispute," he said. So the implication that the international community has a role to play in resolving this issue flies in the face of basic assumptions of India's foreign policy, Tharoor said. "I do not believe we will do that. The fourth thing I did not like about Trump's tweet is that it re-hyphenated India and Pakistan," he said. For the last 30 years, India has successfully in pursuade the world and US presidents since Clinton to not club the two countries together. Tharoor also said the tension between India and Pakistan is not new. "If we look back at the developments of the last decade, I think the last straw was the Pathankot the PM very graciously invited the Pakistanis to participate in the investigation into the attack. And they sent their intelligence people to an Indian airbase - something that had never happened before. They went back and said the Indians did it to themselves, that I think was the last straw. "That's when the prime minister felt, and the Government of India concluded, that you could never really trust the Pakistani military establishment and that entire apparatus there," he said. "So if you look back at where things stood even before Pahalgam, it was not a very warm relationship. After Pahalgam, it's taken a further dive - because, as you know, we've suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, we have reduced the number of personnel in the embassy here, in the High Commission, we have removed defence attaches," he said. It is a very tense relationship even without a shooting war going on, Tharoor said. "For three-four days we were shooting at each other which was a very serious matter which seems to have been brought to a halt right now. I hope it stays that way but even then peace in this case is just the absence of war," Tharoor said. India and Pakistan have reached an understanding to stop all firings and military actions on land, air and sea with immediate effect after four days of cross-border strikes that triggered fears of a wider conflict. In a short announcement, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the directors general of military operations of the two countries agreed on the understanding during a call this afternoon. The decision by India and Pakistan was first made public by Trump in a social media post while claiming that the talks between the two sides were mediated by the US.
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Business Standard
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
US advocates 'direct dialogue' between India-Pak after de-escalation
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on May 11 to discuss the India-Pakistan military standoff, the US State Department said in a media release. The two leaders emphasised the need for both countries to maintain the ceasefire and continue communication. In the statement, US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that Rubio expressed support for direct dialogue between India and Pakistan and also encouraged "continued efforts to improve communication between the two countries". Trump welcomes ceasefire understanding Earlier on May 10, US President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that a ceasefire understanding had been reached between India and Pakistan. It was later confirmed by joint statements from both Indian and Pakistani officials. In another post on May 11, Trump said he would work with India and Pakistan to find a "solution to the Kashmir issue", calling it a "challenge that has lasted a thousand years". 'I am proud that the USA was able to help you arrive at this historic and heroic decision. While not even discussed, I am going to increase trade, substantially, with both of these great nations," Trump wrote. Understanding reached via DGMO call Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) called the Indian DGMO and agreed that both sides would cease all firing and military activity on land, in the air, and at sea with effect from 1700 hours India Standard Time (IST). The Indian government later confirmed, with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri stating, 'The DGMO of Pakistan called the DGMO of India at 1535 hours earlier this afternoon. Instructions have been given on both sides to give effect to this understanding. The DGMOs will talk again on May 12 at 1200 hours.' This understanding between the two nuclear-armed neighbours follows weeks of military tension, triggered by the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people. India reaffirms commitment to citizen safety India has made it clear that any 'misadventures' from the Pakistani side will be met with a strong response. In a press briefing on Sunday, May 11, India's DGMO Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai stated that the armed forces are fully prepared and will not tolerate any harm inflicted on Indian citizens.
Indian Express
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Operation Sindoor: ‘Pakistan changed tune…we told Rubio need to hear from their channels, then their DGMO called'
BEFORE US President Donald Trump claimed at 5.25 pm (IST), May 10, that the United States 'mediated' the India-Pakistan ceasefire over a 'long night,' conversations between top leaders in New Delhi and Washington reveal a telling account of what actually transpired over 24 hours between the night of May 9 and afternoon of May 10. On the night of May 9, US Vice President JD Vance spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and informed him of the US assessment that there was a high probability of a 'dramatic escalation' of hostility, top sources aware of the talks said. Vance pressed Modi for an off-ramp that will be acceptable to Pakistan, they said. Modi is learnt to have heard him out. He told Vance that if Pakistan does anything, they must understand the response from India will be very very strong. In other words, the sources said, the answer was that New Delhi doesn't need to give Pakistan an off-ramp. 'They better watch what they are doing,' the source said, explaining Modi's stance. Within about a couple of hours of the Vance-Modi conversation, the Pakistanis opened up. Their drones and missiles targeted 26 locations, including the air base in Adampur and the Army base in Nagrota. India's response was exactly what Prime Minister Modi promised it would be. '… take apart those eight air bases,' the source said. In the wake of India's 'heaviest attack,' that severely damaged Pakistan bases, in the morning of May 10, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar. Before that, he had already spoken with Pakistan Army Chief Syed Asim Munir. Rubio is learnt to have said that India's formulation 'you don't fire, we don't fire' was fine with Pakistan. 'They have told us they will accept that,' Rubio reportedly told Jaishankar. When asked if the US prevailed upon Pakistan to agree to the 'stoppage of firing and military action,' another source aware of the developments said, 'Why did the DGMO of Pakistan call? Not because somebody spoke in good English. It is the loud noise (from our side) that came when something dropped from the sky.' 'The fact is they changed the tune. But we wanted to hear it from the Pakistanis. The message has to come from them, from their Director General of Military Operations. That is the only channel,' said the top source. The sources said Jaishankar had conveyed this message to Rubio earlier on May 7 too. 'DGMO to DGMO is the practice,' the source said, reiterating that communication channels between India and Pakistan were on at different levels. 'So 1 pm, the DGMO of Pakistan asked for a call. Our DGMO was in a meeting. The actual talk could take place only at 3.30 pm. My sense is probably the Americans would have picked it up from the Pakistanis… After 3.30 pm, they had a talk. Then our DGMO went up (to check with higher authorities). Their DGMO would have gone up. So, there would have been a gap between the talks and they (the US) putting it out,' the source said. All this while, the US never gave any signal that President Trump would claim that the US brokered the ceasefire on social media. Asked about Rubio's statement on further talks between India and Pakistan at a 'neutral' venue and Trump's offer to mediate on Kashmir, the source said, there was no change in India's stance on dealing with Pakistan. 'There are well-settled bilateral mechanisms in place,' he said. Further, there was no discussion on increasing trade with India as Trump suggested. Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism '2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury's special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban's capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More
Hans India
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Omar Abdullah welcomes ceasefire
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday welcomed the ceasefire between India and Pakistan saying it was better late than never. "I welcome from the depths of my heart the announcement made by Government of India spokesperson about restoration of ceasefire between India and Pakistan," Abdullah told reporters at his residence. "Better late than never but had this ceasefire come two or three days earlier, perhaps the bloodshed we saw and the precious lives we lost, would have been safe," he added. Abdullah said the DGMO of Pakistan called his Indian counterpart and they agreed to establish ceasefire again in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere.
