CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI ■ ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM l Sunday l may 11, 2025 l `12.00 l PAGES 26 l LATE city edition We welcome all efforts at de-escalation and hope ceasefire will be implemented —Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General This is no ceasefire. The air defence units in the middle of Srinagar just opened up... explosions heard Today’s ceasefire between India and Pakistan is hugely welcome. I urge them to sustain it ‘Truce conditional, not lowering guard’ PM should chair an allparty meet to take political parties into confidence on the US announcement In a show of solidarity with the Indian Army engaged in a military conflict with Pakistan, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin leads a unity rally’ in Chennai on Saturday. Nearly 20,000 people joined the rally | P Ravikumar Ceasefire —David Lammy, UK Foreign Minister —Omar Abdullah —Jairam Ramesh, Congress Pak violates it with drones, intrusions Total breach Of understanding on truce arrived at by DGMOs on both sides, says Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri Retaliation on By the armed forces. Adequate and appropriate response given. India takes the violations very seriously J aya n t h J a c o b @ New Delhi EXPRESS READ SW monsoon likely to reach state on May 27 T’Puram: Kerala looks all set to experience the earliest onset of monsoon since 2009. Going by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the southwest monsoon is likely to reach the state on May 27 this year, earlier than the usual date of June 1. P3 Hours after India and Pakistan agreed on Saturday to halt all firing and military action on land, air, and sea, effective from 5 pm, the latter violated the ceasefire with drone incursions and a series of blasts, making J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah wonder what the truce was all about. Blackout sirens went off in parts of the western border, plunging them into darkness. In a late night briefing, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said there were repeated violations of the ceasefire understanding arrived at earlier in the evening between the Directors General of Military Operations of India and Pakistan. “This is a breach of the understanding arrived at earlier today The armed forces are giv. DAY 4 ing an adequate and appropriate response to these violations and we take very serious note of the violations,” Misri said. He urged Pakistan to take appropriate steps to address these violations and deal with the situation with seriousness and responsibility “The armed forces . have been given instructions to deal strongly with any instances of repetition of the violations of the border along the International Border as well as the Line of Control,” Misri said. In Nagrota in J&K, the army noticed some suspicious movement near the perimeter of the military station there. “They issued a challenge, leading to a Indus waters treaty To remain in abeyance as announced by India in the wake of the terror attack at Pahalgam brief exchange of fire with the suspect. Sentry sustained a minor injury. Search operations are underway to track the intruder(s),” it said. Earlier in the day, the truce announcement came shortly after US President Donald Trump said his team had mediated a “full and immediate ceasefire” following a long night of talks. Shortly thereafter, Misri announced the cessation of military operations. “The Director General of Military Operations of Pakistan called the Director General of Military Operations of India at 1535 hours IST earlier today. It 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 1700 hours Indian Standard Time today,” Misri announced. expulsion of diplomats To continue, says govt and so will the scaling down of high commission strength on both sides President Trump claimed credit for truce that wasn’t J aya n t h J a c o b @ New Delhi Crediting American mediation for defusing a military escalation between India and Pakistan, President Donald Trump on Saturday announced a “full and immediate” ceasefire between India and Pakistan, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling it a “USbrokered” truce. He praised Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif for their “wisdom, prudence, and statesmanship in choosing the path of peace”. However, sources in New Delhi emphasised that the understanding to halt military action was reached directly between the two militaries, not through any third-party mediation. They said the Pakistan DGMO initiated a call on Saturday leading to , discussions and the ceasefire agreement. “After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” Trump posted on Truth Social. Rubio described it as a “US-brokered ceasefire”. New Delhi: India’s ceasefire agreement with Pakistan, announced is a conditional one and does not signal any change in New Delhi’s diplomatic posture, including its suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, a top goverment source said on Saturday ‘China’s response disappointing’ New Delhi: China’s response during the conflict between India and Pakistan was a disappointing one and it should have sent out a firm message to Pakistan, former union minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid told this newspaper on Saturday ‘Any act of terror will be an act of war’ New Delhi: Just hours before the announcement of a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, the Narendra Modi government took an unprecedented step by deciding that any future act of terror on Indian soil would be treated as an “act of war” and will be responded accordingly. WITH THIS ISSUE PAkistan Apocalypse Now PLUS 12 PAGES