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A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stern and clear message to Pakistan, ceasefire arrangements remained intact in Jammu and Kashmir and across the border towns as well.

In his address to the nation on Monday night, PM Modi stated that India has just paused its retaliation against terrorists and military bases of Islamabad, and not ended it.

He also gave a loud warning to Pakistan that India will not tolerate any ‘nuclear blackmail’, adding that operations against Islamabad have been kept in abeyance and the future will depend on their behavior.

However, shortly after his address, 10 to 12 drones were intercepted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba. The Hoshiarpur administration in Punjab also said that explosions were heard.

Meanwhile, the directors general of military operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan spoke to each other over the hotline at around 5 pm on Monday, for about 30 minutes. They discussed the upholding of the understanding reached on May 10, to stop all military actions against each other.

They discussed continuing the commitment that both sides “must not fire a single shot” or initiate any aggressive or inimical action against each other, the army said.

India and Pakistan on Saturday, May 10, had arrived at an understanding to put an immediate stoppage to all military actions against each other across land, air, and sea. This truce came after four days of intense cross-border fighting which followed India’s Operation Sindoor against terror infrastructure in Pakistan.

Operation Sindoor was launched on May 7 to strike down targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as a response to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people, most civilians.

Flight cancellations today

Air India and IndiGo cancelled flights to and from eight and six locations, respectively, for Tuesday, May 13.

The Tata-owned Air India cancelled its two-way flights for Jammu, Leh, Jodhpur, Amritsar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Chandigarh and Rajkot. Meanwhile, IndiGo airline cancelled its flight operations to and from Jammu, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Leh, Srinagar, and Rajkot.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed the Pahalgam terror attack as the most ‘barbaric face of terrorism’ and expressed the deep pain it brought for him. He noted how the nation stood united against terrorism in one voice and that the Centre gave full freedom to the armed forces to finish off terrorists.

PM Modi gave a big warning to Pakistan, saying that India will “test every step of the country (Pakistan) to see what role it has adopted”.

Top officials at a briefing on Monday said that the Indian military’s resilient, multi-tiered air defence (AD) network thwarted multiple waves of Pakistani attacks on several locations from May 7 to 10, and minimised damage to military and civilian infrastructure.

The DGMOs of both India and Pakistan spoke to each other on Monday evening and discussed the commitment to remain firm on the understanding reached on May 10, to stop all military actions against each other.

India on Monday rebutted US President Donald Trump’s claim that he used trade to stop a conflict between the two countries with “lots of nuclear weapons” and said that ‘trade’ did not figure at all in recent discussions between top American and Indian leaders on the crisis with Pakistan.