India, Pakistan and Donald Trump
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Very good evening and welcome to Free Press Journal. With me is senior journalist and co-founder of SatyaHindi, Ashutosh. Thank you for joining us. Ashutosh: Good evening, Afrida. Thank you for having me.
Donald Trump claimed to have brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan using trade as leverage, a statement India has refuted. Congress has criticized Prime Minister Modi, questioning the comparison to his Pakistani counterpart.
The military operations chiefs of India and Pakistan will discuss on Monday the next steps for the nuclear-armed neighbours after a ceasefire returns calm to the border, following their fiercest fighting in nearly three decades.
A ceasefire agreed between India and Pakistan appears to be holding, with both sides stressing their commitment to the surprise truce which halted the worst fighting in decades between the nuclear-armed neighbors.