As tensions ratcheted up over the last week of fighting, Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India, the country’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar told CNN on Monday.

PM Shehbaz asserts Islamabad ready for both war and peace; shares concerns with UN chief about inflammatory remarks by Delhi.

Pakistan returned a captured border guard to India on Wednesday, in a fresh sign of detente after a ceasefire ended four days of conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.

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.

Even under the threat of an all-out war that could spiral into a catastrophic nuclear conflict,  India’s opposition parties—including the Stalinist parliamentary parties—have rallied behind the Modi-led BJP government in the name of “defending the nation.

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of Congress raises concerns over a sudden ceasefire mediated by a third country after recent India-Pakistan military conflict. J-K Congress leader Tariq Hameed Karra demands clarity and an all-party meeting,

Some have even attacked India's top diplomat Vikram Misri, accusing him of being a "traitor". Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

China is Pakistan’s biggest arms supplier, and its fighter jets and missiles played a key role in last week’s military exchanges with India.