India and Pakistan did not announce to the ceasefire between them on Saturday, May 10, 4 days after mutual missile and artillery attacks that left dozens of deaths until they returned to the exchange of accusations of violating each party to the agreement, so what is the opinion of each party about what happened during that period? Is the ceasefire holding up?
Al -Jazeera Net raised the previous two questions and others to the head of the Indian Institute for International Studies and a Pakistani journalist specializing in geo -strategic issues, so these answers were.
Painful
The head of the Indian Institute for World Studies, Ashok Saganhar, who was also a former ambassador to Kazakhstan, Sweden and Latvia, believes that Pakistan “has received severe strikes and severe punishment from India” to the point that it will not dare to violate the ceasefire.
He considered that India succeeded in carrying out its operation, “Sendhur”, in which it targeted 9 of the strongholds and disappointments of the “terrorists” in Pakistan, he said.
He said that India was able to repel all the attacks coming from Pakistan, and it was unable to inflict any impact of any Indian air bases or military facilities, while the Pakistani air defense system was completely unable to confront the Indian missiles that it launched through “Rafale” and “Sukhoi 30” planes, he said.
The journalist denied the authenticity of the Pakistani novel that it had shot down Indian planes and said that “this is the weaving of its imagination”, because it did not offer any concrete evidence to prove its allegations and the Pakistani officials did not have any real information to provide, while India brought down two JF-17 and Wajih F-10 planes, and fully destroyed the Pakistani air defense system and many of the Pakistani airports and airports, As he claimed.
The steadfastness of the agreement
Saganhar considered that Washington prefers to continue this agreement because it does not want to bring out more conflicts and wars in the world, especially since the Russian -Ukrainian war and the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip drains a large part of its attention, and it now wants to focus more, not on the European scene, but on the square of the Indian and calm surrounding, where India is an important and essential partner for the United States in these two regions.
The former Indian ambassador believes that if US President Donald Trump is able to show some success regarding his mediation or negotiations, he will be keen to highlight this to win some political points by claiming that he was the one who stopped the war, and Saganhar expressed his belief that Trump will welcomes the agreement as a positive propaganda success in his interest.
Severe punishment
According to his opinion, it was Pakistan who sought peace because after “the severe punishment that it received from India, it was literally on its knees,” adding that this matter “made the director of the Pakistani military operations obliged to contact his Indian counterpart at 3:35 pm yesterday afternoon, and begging for humiliating and humiliating peace, which India was completely ready to give”, as he claimed.
A truce accompanied by skirmishes
On the other hand, the journalist and analyst in the Pakistani geo -strategic issues, Javid Rana, expressed his belief that the ceasefire agreement will stand up to the ground with some skirmishes between the two parties from time to time.
The Pakistani analyst believes that India “was desperately looking for a ceasefire agreement at the beginning, when missing missile strikes on Pakistan targeted between 6 to 9 cities”, as India then raised the white flag at the control line, which indicates that it does not want to continue the war, “he said, adding that Pakistan did not recognize that and the attack as it sent drones and missiles and also used water cannons.
The journalist considered that India was facing a difficult time while Pakistan did not accept American pressure, as it considered that unless it did a public response to India showing the world that it has a military force, it would not accept any ceasefire agreement, he said.
American pressure
He said that India later went to Türkiye and Washington and asked them to pressure Pakistan to impose this agreement. However, this did not happen until Pakistan publicly hit India, as it launched a large -scale attack targeting at least 36 locations, including missile stores, missile defense capabilities, and military air bases, according to Pakistan journalist Javed Rana.
Rana believes that “India was partially defeated in the traditional war when Pakistan has shot down its latest combat aircraft, including” Rafale “fighter planes. He considered that it was also “a moment when the Americans realized that the matter was not just a traditional battle in which India was defeated, but there were clear threats to the outbreak of a nuclear war,” according to him.
He expressed his belief that at this moment the Americans intervened desperately, imposed more pressure on Pakistan, then a ceasefire agreement was reached.
Pakistani power
The Pakistani journalist also believes that the world has realized that Pakistan has one of the most powerful military machines in the world, as well as having a nuclear weapon, and said, “I think there is now, at this moment, a ongoing review in the western capitals about the military power of Pakistan, which has become a greater source of concern for Israel, which he believed would be able to weaken Pakistan at least, but that did not happen.”
