The ceasefire agreement followed days of retaliatory strikes and heightened tensions with Pakistan after India conducted cross-border strikes on terrorist camps.

Operation Sindoor was launched in response to the Pahalgam attack in which 25 tourists and a local guide were killed in cold blood by terrorists on April 22.

In response to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that left several Indian civilians dead, India carried out what it described as a calibrated,