Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London,

I'm James Kamara Sarmia. And as we come on air potentially a significant development in the conflict

that is developing between India and Pakistan. It's in an over-that-unresolved territorial dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir,

a dispute that's led to three wars and regular skirmishes between India and Pakistan over the decades.

What happened overnight has suggested this is the most serious conflict between the two nuclear-armed powers this century.

But in the last few minutes, President Trump has suggested on social media that Indian

Pakistan have agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire.

We'll see what we can determine about that.

First, so just a reminder of the immediate background to what's been happening.

Last month,

gunmen killed 26 people, most of them Indian tourists at the Pelagam beauty spot in Indian-administered

Kashmir. Eyewitnesses said the attackers had singled out Hindu men. India promised to avenge those

deaths. It accused Pakistan of being behind the attack.

Islamabad denied involvement. Well, early last week, the form of that revenge began to take shape.

India carried out missile strikes on what it said were nine terrorist training camps inside Pakistan

and Pakistan administered Kashmir. Pakistan said the victims of those strikes were civilians.

In the days that have followed, there have been exchanges of fire

between the two countries' militaries.

Overnight, though, in a significant escalation,

there was a wave of missile, drone and artillery strikes,

targeting air bases on both sides of the border.

That blast was heard at the Nur Khan Air Force Base in Raul Pindi in Pakistan earlier on Saturday morning.

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