Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and United States President Donald Trump said on 10 May that India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire.
“After a long night of negotiations brokered by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a complete and immediate ceasefire,” Trump said in a message on his Truth Social platform.
He congratulated both countries for “using common sense and high intelligence”.
The statement was later confirmed by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, who wrote on social media X that the South Asian countries had “agreed to a ceasefire with immediate effect”.
“Pakistan has always sought peace and security in the region without conceding its sovereignty and territorial integrity!” – he added.
India has not yet commented on the situation.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said that the governments of India and Pakistan have also agreed to “begin talks on a wide range of issues at a neutral venue”. In his post, Rubio said he and Vice President JD Vance had contacted senior Indian and Pakistani officials within the previous 48 hours.
Islamabad and New Delhi had earlier hinted at a willingness to end the fiercest fighting in years if the other side did the same, but they continued to exchange attacks on 10 May and tensions persisted.
Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar told the BBC in a commentary that if India retreated, Islamabad would do the same. He made the statement after India said it was committed not to escalate if Pakistan retaliated in the same way.
Dar made similar remarks to the national publication Geo News but warned that “there will be a response” if India launches any strikes.
The comments came after Pakistan announced the launch of a military operation against India, accusing it of firing missiles at three Pakistani airbases late in the evening of 9 May.