India, Pakistan military to confer as ceasefire holds
SpaceWar.com reports: “Indian and Pakistani military chiefs were set to confer Monday as a ceasefire that brought the nuclear-armed rivals back from the brink of all-out war held.
US President Donald Trump announced the truce late Saturday after four days of missile, drone and artillery attacks which killed at least 60 people and sent thousands fleeing on both sides.
The phone call between the heads of military operations due at 12:00 pm (0630 GMT) comes after the Indian army reported the ‘first calm night in recent days’ in Kashmir and along its western border with Pakistan.
Abdul Basit at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore said that the talks would be about modalities of the ceasefire and not policy decisions.
The aim is to ‘avoid any miscalculations, because right now one spark could quickly move towards a nuclear catastrophe,’ Basit told AFP…”
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