This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Join by my good colleagues Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,

and Assane O'Connor, former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States now,

senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Gentlemen, it's been several weeks since we addressed the Kashmir conflict of these last weeks.

And right now the news is more positive, but still unclear.

There is a statement from Reuters that both sides, Pakistan and

India, are beginning to move troops back from the line of control. At the same time, in the interim

period, we've had statements from the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, to the effect that

any attack on India or Indian nationals by a terror group housed or

originated from Pakistan will be considered to be an attack by the Pakistani state itself

and we will respond accordingly. On the side of the Pakistan statement, we have the general and the commander-in-chief of the services,

now a field marshal, Asmere, and his remark is that there is a ceasefire underway.

So it's either a cessation of hostilities, a suspension of hostilities, that's the term used in Delhi,

and a ceasefire in Islamabad and Raul Pindi to headquarters of the army.

Mr. Ambassador, I begin with you because you've watched this cycle over many years and lived it.

What do you recognize now as the most significant statement by these two

leaders or their actions? Are we standing down or is this a pause before re-engagement?

Good evening to you. Good evening. I think that they have stood down. There is no doubt about that.

You must read their statements, a rather hyperbolic statements of Indian and Pakistani leaders with caution. They are sometimes playing to a domestic audience that really wants escalation sometimes because it believes that they are the great victors.

So at the moment, Prime Minister Modi, having built up the impression that Pakistan is finally going to be taught a lesson,

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