Pakistan extends ceasefire with India
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India revoked the security clearance of Celebi Airport Services India, a unit of Turkey's Celebi , with immediate effect, citing national security concerns, the country's civil aviation ministry said in an order on Thursday.
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.
1972 — India and Pakistan sign a peace accord, renaming the ceasefire line in Kashmir as the Line of Control, a heavily fortified stretch of military outposts that divide the region between them. Both sides deploy more troops along the frontier, turning it into a heavily fortified stretch of military outposts.
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Shilpak Ambule, India's high commissioner to Singapore said that "everybody is on operational alert. But that does not mean that our India growth story and focus on economy gets affected." His comments come against the backdrop of tensions between India and Pakistan,
Prior to Islamabad and New Delhi agreeing a ceasefire that brought four days of intense fighting between the nuclear-armed arch-rivals to a halt, an image was widely shared online in posts falsely claiming it showed the destruction of an Indian missile defence system.
The fact that India and Pakistan were able to agree to a ceasefire as escalations spiralled is reason for optimism. It shows that internal calculations and international pressure can pull the two parties back from the brink. However, the ceasefire represents an incredibly precarious peace. Can it be sustained?
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.
India was required to get approval from Pakistan to carry out flushing—though this is a normal activity—as the downstream regions are in that country.