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With last-minute U.S. mediation, cooler heads prevailed between India and Pakistan. But a flare-up is inevitable.

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.

Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar over the US 's claims of having played mediator between India and Pakistan,

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.

India and Pakistan are both claiming victory in the short, sharp confrontation that brought the nuclear-armed neighbours to the brink of war — but analysts say the US interventi