India’s military sent a “hotline message” to Pakistan on Sunday about violations of a ceasefire agreed days earlier and informed it of New Delhi’s intent to respond if it was repeated, a top Indian army officer said.
India’s Director General of Military Operations Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai was speaking as a fragile ceasefire appeared to be holding after both sides blamed the other for initial violations on Saturday night.
A spokesman for Pakistan’s military denied the allegations. “No violation is being made by the Pakistan army or armed forces of the ceasefire,” the spokesman said during a press conference with representation from the country’s air force and navy.
The truce announced on Saturday followed four days of intense fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours. In the worst fighting in nearly three decades, they fired missiles and drones at each other’s military installations, killing almost 70 people.
Diplomacy and pressure from the United States helped secure the ceasefire deal when it seemed that the conflict was spiralling alarmingly. But within hours of its coming into force, artillery fire was witnessed in Indian Kashmir, the centre of much of last week’s fighting.
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