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.

The first word of the truce came from President Trump, who announced that the two countries had reached a "full and immediate ceasefire," after talks mediated by the U.S.

Top military operations officials of New Delhi and Islamabad spoke on hotline for the first time since New Delhi conducted Operation Sindoor to destroy nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (POK).

The US-brokered ceasefire agreement will not go anywhere near addressing the fundamental grievances fueling the decades-long dispute over the status of Muslim-majority Kashmir.