Reuters reported that India and Pakistan seem to have wound down the hostilities that brought the two nuclear powers to the brink of another war.
At the same time Indian security forces started a massive crackdown on militant groups in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region.
In Indian-ruled Kashmir, troops on Sunday shot dead two militants after a three-day gun battle that also killed five security force personnel, taking the total death toll to 25 in the past two weeks.
Both the Indian and the Pakistani armies on Sunday reported relative calm in the past 24 hours along the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
In the past few days there was exchange of fire that killed seven people on the Pakistani side and four on the Indian side, though the release of a downed Indian fighter pilot by Pakistan on Friday night has helped de-escalate tensions.
Via Reuters
