Four days of drones and missile attacks between India and Pakistan, the most intense combat among rivals with nuclear weapons in decades, ended on Saturday when both countries agreed to stop fire, to Indian, Pakistani and American officials.
President Trump announced El Alto El Fuego in his social media site and said he had been mediated by the United States. Indian and Pakistani officials confirmed the high fire, thought that only Pakistan quickly recognized and the American role.
“Pakistan appreciates the United States to facilitate this result, which we have accepted in the interest of regional peace and stability,” said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif or Pakistan on social networks.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said in a statement that and Vice President JD Vance had involved with senior officials of Pakistan and India, including his prime ministers, approximately 48 hours. In addition to the Alto El Fuego, India and Pakistan also agreed to “start conversations about a wide set of problems in a neutral site,” said Rubio.
But the Indian government contradicted Mr. Rubio, saying that the high fire had been directly resolved between India and Pakistan, and that there was no leg decision to hold conversations on any other issue anywhere.
The crisis was when 26 civilians were killed in a terrorist attack last month on the Indian side of a disputed territory, Kashmir, and quickly became accusations and then fighting directly. India accused Pakistan of housing the terrorist groups responsible for the massacre, which Pakistan denied, and this week Indian hit the sites in Pakistan, which led to a series of attacks that both were reprisals.
Some of the most intense fighting took place along the control line, which divides the Kashmir region disputed between India and Pakistan. The civilians of civilians have died on both sides, since the Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged fire.
And it was not clear, since the night fell on Saturday, that the high fire firmly had tasks in the disputed region, where residents reported that fire exchanges audited.
A few hours before Mr. Trump announced the high fire, the conflict had intensified even more, and Pakistan said that India had reached three of its air bases with missiles, including a key installation of the Air Force near the capital. The Pakistani army then said in a statement that he had retaliated against several military sites in India with his own missiles, calling for his response “one eye for an eye.”
Fearing that clashes could become a total war, several countries with close links with India and Pakistan, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, had been working for days to try to cool the conflict.
Mr. Rubio spoke with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of India and Pakistan on Saturday morning, urging both parties to find an exit of the crisis and “avoid calculation error,” according to the State Department. Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar described his call to Mr. Rubio as “very reassuring.”
Mr. Dar, who had represented Pakistan in conversations with several countries trying to mediate a diplomatic solution to the crisis, said on social networks on Saturday that his country had agreed to stop the fire with immediate effect.
India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Miskri said at a press conference in New Delhi that the general directors of the military of the two countries had spoken on Saturday and agreed to stop all the fire of the earth, the air and the sea. He said that the general directors would speak on Monday again, suggest that the agreement could be temporary and to reassess.
A swirl of competitive statements and misinformation has surrounded the conflict, which makes it difficult to verify the exact details of the fighting and their tolls. The announcement of Alto El Fuego occurred after a night of the heaviest military commitment, including two nights of drones that seemed to have inflicted damage to the two military.
Through the crisis, Indian and Pakistani officials and their allies have tried to shape the perceptions of their successes and losses, disputing the claims of others about strikes and losses.
In a press conference on Saturday, Indian military officers described by hitting several Pakistani military objectives, two of them radar sites, in response to a wave or pachystani attacks in 26 locations using donuts, long -range weapons and fighter.
There was a “limited damage” to the team and personnel in four bases of the Indian Air Force, said Vyomika Singh, a Air Force officer of India, at the press conference.
Bashmir residents have described an intense bombardment in recent days, giving an idea of the fighting on the ground. Iphtkhar Ahmed, a politician from Rajouri, a city on the backwood side by the Indians, said four people had died in their neighborhood after being hit by an artillery fire that began on Friday night and continued until Saturday.
Mr. Ahmed, like many others in the area, is used to bombarding, but the previous episodes did not last long. “This time, it was very long and intense,” he said.
After the ceasefire was announced, many in the region gave a sigh of relief, with relatives called to share the news and some families prepared to return to the homes that had threatened with the ship with the bombardment.
Seth Krummrich, military analyst and former colonel of the US Army.
But Mr. Krummrich, now a senior executive of the Global Guardian private security firm, also said that the approach mainly in military objectives and the “parity in the types, levels and locations of the attacks reflects that the sides of the bones are liberating the Neinder side.
And there the military clashes increased, leaders in both countries argued that they did not want the conflict to get worse. India and Pakistan have fought for repeated wars since the two countries were divided in 1947, with the state of Kashmir between the disputed problems. One of those wars, in December 1971, established the control line that divides Kashmir. But India and Pakistan are separated by an international border of around 2,000 miles, and in this conflict each pointed to sites far beyond Kashmir.
The current conflict developed in an environment of intense nationalism in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi has followed an aggressive position about Pakistan, trying to isolate him.
His support base seemed satisfied with the military action that ended on Saturday. “We had voted for a strong man, and he has proven to be himself,” said Manj Misra, a supporter of Modi in the city of Luckknow.
Both India and Pakistan had reasons to decline, with Pakistan seeking the extension of a vital loan worth billions of the International Monetary Fund, and with India trying to negotiate a commercial agreement with the Trump administration.
In a sign of relaxation of tensions, Pakistan on Saturday afternoon reopened his airspace for all flights, after closing it when the conflict intensified.
But it was not clear that the white relationships that would soon recover where the crisis had been. Following the terrorist attack last month, Pakistan and India reduced diplomatic relations and visas restricted to the citizens of each Ohther, and India had also retired from a treaty to share water between the two countries that is vital for Pakistan agriculture.
Hari Kumar” Hishasini raj” Pragati Kb and Alex Travelli Contributed reports.