Missiles in the morning. Ceasefire by sundown. In just 24 hours, India and Pakistan went from the brink of full-blown war to agreeing on a fragile truce.
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00:00There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.
00:03It's 8 p.m. on 10th May, 2025.
00:06Arguably one of the most defining days in India-Pakistan relations.
00:10India and Pakistan agreed to stop firing, stop military action from 5 p.m. today.
00:14The Director General of Military Operations of Pakistan called the Director General of Military Operations of India at 15.35 hours earlier this afternoon.
00:27It was agreed between them that both sides would stop all firing and military action on land and in the air and sea with effect from 1,700 hours Indian Standard Time today.
00:46The Director General of Military Operations will talk again on the 12th of May at 1,200 hours.
00:52Earlier in the day, Pakistan had moved its troops to the border.
00:55India said this was the first major build-up since the 1999 Kargil War.
01:00Just hours after the MEA briefing confirmed this news, top government sources told India Today that New Delhi had resolved to treat any future terror attacks as acts of war and that it would respond accordingly.
01:11But a lot had happened earlier that day.
01:13In the early hours of 10th May, the day of the ceasefire, Pakistan had launched what it called Operation Bunyan Al-Marsus,
01:19a full-scale attack using drones, missiles, loitering munitions, even fighter jets.
01:24Targets, military installations and civil infrastructure across Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
01:30Air bases at Udhampur, Bhoj, Pathanakot and Bhatinda were hit.
01:34A missile struck an air base in Punjab.
01:36There were also attacks near schools and hospitals and that, India said, crosses a line.
01:40Colonel Sophia Qureshi, one of the Indian Armed Forces' key spokespersons, said the targeting of civil infrastructure by Pakistan showed just how reckless Pakistan had become.
01:49India's response?
01:50Precise.
01:51Six Pakistani air bases were hit.
01:53Rafiki, Mureed, Chaklala, Raheem Yarkhan, Sukur and Chunyan, along with radar sites and an aviation base in Sialkot.
02:01No civilian casualties reported.
02:02Just a clear message.
02:03India was prepared.
02:05India was watching.
02:05All of this was happening days after India launched Operation Sindur, targeting nine terror camps across the border.
02:11A direct retaliation for the Pahlgaam terror attack that killed 26 people on April 22nd.
02:17It is 8pm on 10th May.
02:19There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.
02:23As the tumultuous day is coming to a close, External Affairs Minister S. Jashankar has tweeted
02:27that India and Pakistan have worked out an understanding on stoppage of firing and military action.
02:33Peace, however fragile, has returned.
02:35To the subcontinent, I'm Alisha Adhikari.
02:38First things first.