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Today in Focus

Back from the brink: India and Pakistan’s uneasy truce over Kashmir

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Guardian’s south Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports on the spiralling conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, and how the two nuclear powers agreed a fragile ceasefire. Azhar Qadri, a journalist, explains what the conflict looks like from inside Kashmir. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Without crossing a single border, India has unleashed a wave of calculated retribution.

1:16.6

They came to the very brink of an all-out war.

1:19.6

Pakistan has accused India of igniting an inferno in the region by killing at least 26 people.

1:35.3

The second wave, the second night of Pakistan military attacking LOC areas, border areas.

1:49.6

Pakistan says it is retaliating after accusing India of striking three of its air bases overnight. But over the weekend, India and Pakistan reached an uneasy ceasefire.

1:55.1

There have been repeated violations of the understanding arrived at earlier this evening.

2:02.1

The agreement has been stretched very nearly to breaking point, but for now it's holding.

2:11.3

And the two nuclear-powered armies have shifted to the next battle, a no less important one.

2:18.6

Today, inside Kashmir, for a perspective you may not have heard from the people at the

2:23.8

center of this conflict and the fight over the narrative.

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