Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.

The region’s disaster management authority confirmed that Indian shelling had resulted in at least 13 civilians being martyred in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) during the past 12-hour span leading up to Saturday noon, Reuters reported.

This is not a war, we are told. These are “targeted strikes,” “security responses,” “counterterrorism measures.” But in South Asia, [...]Read

EDUCATION authorities in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will meet on Sunday to decide on the reopening of schools and colleges, amid signs of de-escalation in tensions with India. “We will seek feedback from the administrations of all districts facing LoC ...

At least 11 civilians were martyred and 56 injured, including women and children, as Indian forces shelled border villages in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Neelum Valley, according to AJK Information Minister Mazhar Saeed.

Pakistani security officials said India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-administered territory in at least five locations early Wednesday.

Pakistan vowed retaliation after India launched missiles toward its neighbor in response to a deadly terrorist attack in the disputed region of Kashmir.

Pakistan says India’s missile attacks on six locations killed at least eight people and wounded more than 35. Just after midnight on Wednesday, India’s army launched Operation Sindoor, hitting nine sites it described as “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

A teenage girl and two children — including the 7-year-old son of an army officer — were killed in separate Indian missile attacks on civilian areas in Azad Jammu and Kashmir,