India-Pakistan conflict: Firing stopped, military officials to talk again on May 12, says MEA

The Indian armed forces said that they had damaged Pakistani air bases in Skardu, Jacobabad, Sargodha and Bholari.

This was over and above the Pakistani defence targets that the Indian military said it had hit at Rafiqi, Murid, Chaklala (Rawalpindi), Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur and Chunian “using air-launched precision weapons from our fighter aircraft”.

India says ceasefire decision ‘worked out directly’ with Pakistan

The Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has said that the decision to stop the firing was “worked out directly between the two countries”.

“There is no decision to hold talks on any other issue at any other place,” the ministry added.

The statement came minutes after United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he and Vice President JD Vance had over the past two days spoken to Indian and Pakistani officials, including Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir, and National Security Advisors Ajit Doval and Asim Malik.

Rubio claimed that New Delhi and Islamabad have agreed to “start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site”.

“We commend Prime Ministers [Narendra] Modi and [Shehbaz] Sharif on their wisdom, prudence, and statesmanship in choosing the path of peace,” Rubio said.

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