Indian and Pakistani authorities said on Monday that militarized areas along the countries were spread overnight, and no fire was opened in recent days.
India and Pakistan stopped all military operations on land, air and sea during a ceasefire brokered by the U.S. on Saturday to stop escalating hostilities between two competitors of nuclear weapons that threaten regional peace.
“Peace was maintained that night in Jamu and Kashmir and other areas along the international borders,” the Indian army said in a statement, adding that no incidents occurred.
Senior military officials from India and Pakistan are scheduled to speak later on Monday to assess whether the ceasefire is held. There are concerns that this will not be raised after they allege one another for accusing each other of each other hours after the violation was announced.
Local government officials in Pakistan-managed Kashmir reported no cross-border fire along the control route and said civilians displaced due to recent skirmishes between Pakistan and Indian forces were returning home.
Pakistan's military spokesman Ahmad Sharif said late Sunday that Pakistan is still committed to maintaining the ceasefire and is not the first to violate it.
He also confirmed that senior military officials from both countries will speak by phone on Monday.
Shortly after the ceasefire was announced on Saturday, Pakistan reopened all airports and resumed flight operations. India then reopened all 32 airports on Monday due to the outbreak of tensions, which temporarily closed the northern and western regions.
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“It is learned that these airports can now be used for civil aircraft operations immediately,” the Airport Authority of India said in a statement.
The military of the two countries has been involved in one of their worst confrontations for decades since last Wednesday, when India attacked a target within Pakistan, targeting with militants responsible for the Indian-controlled Kashmir Holocaust. Last month, tourists, mostly Hindu men, were brutally killed in front of their families in the meadow town of Pahalgam.
India accused Pakistan of supporting the Holocaust militants, which Islamabad denied. The incident first led to a series of diplomatic measures against Tate between the two countries, bringing their bilateral relations to a near-historic low.
The two expelled each other's diplomats, closed the airspace, borders, and suspended a key water treaty.
After a strike in Pakistan on Wednesday, both sides exchanged fires along the facts of the stationary Kashmir region, followed by missiles and drones attacking each other’s territory, mainly targeting military devices and air bases. The two countries said dozens of civilians were killed on both sides.
On Sunday, the Indian military claimed for the first time last week that it had attacked more than 100 militants, including prominent leaders, on Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan.
Indian military operations director-general Rajiv Ghai will hold a conversation with his Pakistani counterpart on Monday.
Gai said at least 35 to 40 Pakistani soldiers were killed during the conflict on the Line of Control, and the de facto border divides the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. Five Indian soldiers were also killed, he said.
Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Thursday that his country's armed forces killed 40 to 50 Indian soldiers on the line of control. The Pakistani military also claimed to have shot down five Indian fighter jets and caused huge losses on Indian military devices by targeting 26 locations in India.
The Associated Press cannot independently verify the claims made by India and Pakistan.
“In spite of minor damage, all of our military bases and air defense systems continue to operate in full and are ready to perform any further missions, if needed,” Marshal Ak Ak Bharti, the Director General of Air Operations of the Indian General, said in a press conference on Monday.
Bharti reiterated that the battle in New Delhi was “a battle with terrorists, not with the Pakistani military or its civilians”.
Munir Ahmed, an Associated Press writer in Islamabad, contributed to the report.
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