The ceasefires between India and Pakistan have been disrupted by fighting in disputed Kashmir region

The ceasefire has brought a “sigh of relief” to Kashmir, as Pakistan’s Prime Minister declares it will not violate a water treaty

In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir’s Neelum Valley, which is three kilometers from the Line of Control, people said there were exchanges of fire and heavy shelling after the ceasefire began.

The two countries agreed to a truce a day earlier after talks to defuse the most serious military confrontation between them in decades, after a gun massacre of tourists in India.

The neighbors agreed to stop all firing and military action on land, at sea and in the air as part of the ceasefire. They were accusing each other of violating the deal shortly after.

India, unlike Pakistan, has not said anything about Trump or the U.S. since the deal was announced. India has not acknowledged anyone other than the military contacts with the Pakistan’s.

Both armies have engaged in daily fighting since Wednesday along the rugged and mountainous Line of Control, which is marked by razor wire coils, watchtowers and bunkers that snake across foothills populated by villages, tangled bushes and forests.

JAMMU, India — On Monday, children returned to school, airports reopened across border areas of India and Pakistan and families mourned their dead as a ceasefire announced Saturday by President Trump held for the second day.

India blamed Pakistan, which denied a connection to the attack, and demanded it show evidence. Last week, India’s Ambassador to the United States stated that the evidence would be out in a couple of weeks.

The ceasefire has not affected other measures that India announced after the late-April attack — most importantly, its suspension of a water treaty that divides six South Asian rivers between it and Pakistan. Pakistan’s United Nations Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad described the treaty’s suspension as “an existential threat” to his country’s people.

“Water and blood cannot flow together,” he said in a televised address to Indians. It will be only on terrorism if there are talks with Pakistan, he said.

Civilians in both countries welcomed the stop in fighting. “The ceasefire brings that sigh of relief,” said 34-year-old Babar Rashid, who lives in Bahawalpur, a Pakistani city some 90 miles from the Indian border. India struck the city’s outskirts last Wednesday, saying it was targeting terrorists there. Rashid said he was pleased that Pakistan managed, in his view, to bloody India’s nose. He warned that India should not make a mistake.

Indian authorities say the army has killed 100 terrorists in Pakistan. Dozens of civilians were killed between last Wednesday and Saturday in the tit-for-tat strikes between India and Pakistan, according to death tolls given by both countries.

The Kashmir-Pakistan ceasefire holds for a 2nd day: “We are going to war,” said a refugee in Jammu

A cousin of the twins says that the family moved to Poonch three months ago. He said that the father of the children was seriously wounded. Mir’s aunt, the twins’ mother, did not have the heart to tell her husband that their children had been killed. Mir said he doesn’t know that there’s a ceasefire. When his aunt visits her husband in the hospital, she tells him that the children are at home. She cries when she leaves the room.

Jammu, a city in India administered Kashmir, is where some dozen refugees ended up taking shelter. Men and women were in a prayer hall and a basement. The farmers who were displaced were from the village of Pargwal.

The firing started a week ago and when local officials arranged buses for the residents to escape, some jumped into irrigation canals. He said that even then, there were bullets whizzing past them. Residents said they weren’t sure if the area was safe to return to.

In Kashmir, a man named Sikander Hayat Janjua emerged from his house on Saturday, barely a thousand feet from the Line of Control. “We were in distress for days,” he said — unable to fetch water, feed livestock or let their children play in the sun.

We want this ceasefire to last forever, according to Janjua. He said those who celebrate war on both sides are uneducated.

Source: India-Pakistan ceasefire holds for a 2nd day

On the India-Pakistan air-base strike in Islamabad: a report by the National Radio Radio Radio Research Agency (NAMA)

India claimed to have struck several Pakistani air bases, including one in a military garrison near the capital city Islamabad. Multiple witnesses confirmed to NPR that there was a strike and the Pakistani defense minister only said that a vehicle was hit.