India accuses Pakistan of violating ceasefire as explosions heard over Srinagar and Jammu: Live updates

A spokesperson from Pakistan’s foreign minister has now issued a statement in response to India’s accusation it has broken ceasefire.

The country blaming India for breaking the truce, signed by both countries just hours ago.

The statement reads: “Pakistan remains committed to faithful implementation of ceasefire between Pakistan and India, announced earlier today.

“Notwithstanding the violations being committed by India in some areas, our forces are handling the situation with responsibility and restraint.

“We believe that any issues in smooth implementation of the ceasefire should be addressed through communication at appropriate levels.”

Mr Sharif spoke about the ceasefire deal, but did not respond to accusations from India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, that Pakistan broke the cease-fire soon after it was announced.

He did say: “We are a very responsible country and we have displayed this. We want peace. We have made this agreement of ceasefire and we have been very positive about it.”

As India accuses Pakistan of breaching the ceasefire agreed between the two countries, Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has said his country has responded positively to the deal.

In a televised speech, he said he hoped all the outstanding issues with India, including the Kashmir dispute, would be resolved through peaceful dialogue.

Sharif thanked US President Donald Trump, China, and other friendly countries like Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey for their role in defusing tensions.

He praised the armed forces, saying Pakistan’s military made a fitting response when India launched missile attacks overnight. “Our pilots silenced the Indian military’s guns within hours,” Sharif said.

The apparent return to hostilities began shortly after the deal was struck, with fresh exchanges of fire reported along the Line of Control (LoC), and explosions heard in major cities such as Srinagar and Jammu.

Eyewitnesses in Indian-administer Kashmir reported blackouts and anti-aircraft activity, while visuals captured red projectiles streaking across the night sky.

Meanwhile, Pakistan has denied any ceasefire violations. Speaking to local media, the country’s Information Minister insisted that there had been no breach from their side.

Several social media users in India expressed their disappointment over the alleged violations. Chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir, expressed his exasperation over the late night attacks.

He shared a video of projectiles in Srinagar on X, and he wrote: “This is no ceasefire. The air defence units in the middle of Srinagar just opened up.”

Despite a US-brokered ceasefire between India and Pakistan after four days of intense military exchanges, renewed accusations of violations hours after the announcement underscore how fragile such agreements remain in the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri in a press briefing late on Saturday said that Pakistan had breached the ceasefire understanding reached earlier that day.

“There had been repeated violations,” he said, adding that the Indian Army had retaliated against what it described as a “border intrusion”.

For a conflict long characterised by periodic flare-ups and swift escalations, the latest developments in Kashmir highlight how tenuous the peace can be – even with international intervention.

A terror attack in Kashmir on 22 April has pushed India and Pakistan a step closer to war, marking the biggest breakdown in relations since 2019.

• 22 April: Gunmen shoot and kill 26 tourists at the tourist town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, a major shift in a regional conflict that has largely spared civilians. The unidentified gunmen also wound 17 people. A group called Kashmir Resistance, which India accuses Pakistan of backing, claims the attack.

• 23 April: India downgrades diplomatic ties, closes the only functional land border crossing, and suspends a crucial water-sharing treaty that has survived two wars and a major border skirmish between the two countries.

• India launches a manhunt for the Pahalgam assailants. Pakistan denies involvement in the attack.

• 24 April: India and Pakistan cancel visas for each other’s nationals, setting a deadline for them to leave. In retaliation, Pakistan shuts its airspace for all Indian-owned or Indian-operated airlines, and suspends all trade with India, including to and from any third country. Government ministers on both sides hint the dispute could escalate to military action.

• 25 April: India says its troops exchanged fire with Pakistani soldiers at the Line of Control, the de facto border dividing the disputed Kashmir region. Pakistan warns it could suspend an agreement that established the Line of Control, in what would be a major and worrying step.

• 26 April: Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif vows his government will respond “with full force and might” to Indian attempts to stop or divert the flow of water.

• 30 April: Pakistan’s information minister Attaullah Tarar says his government has “credible intelligence” that India intends to carry out military action against Pakistan in the next 24 to 36 hours.

• 3 May: Pakistan test-fires a ballistic missile with a range of 450km.

• 7 May: India fires missiles on Pakistan, which calls the strikes an “act of war” and vows to avenge those who died in the pre-dawn attack. The missiles kill 31 people, including women and children, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the country’s Punjab province. The strikes target at least nine sites “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned”, says India’s defense ministry. Pakistan claims it downed several Indian fighter jets.

• 8 May: India fires attack drones into Pakistan, killing at least two civilians, the Pakistani military says. India, meanwhile, accuses its neighbour of attempting its own attack and acknowledges targeting its arch rival’s air defence system.

• India evacuates thousands of people from villages near the highly militarised frontier in the Kashmir region. Flights remain suspended at over two dozen airports across northern and western regions of India.

• 9 May: India suspends its biggest domestic cricket tournament for a week following the escalating military tensions with Pakistan. Pakistan initially says it will move its own domestic T20 tournament to the United Arab Emirates because of the crisis, but then says it will only postpone matches. India’s army says drones have been sighted in 26 locations across many areas in Indian states bordering Pakistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir, including the main city of Srinagar. The drones were tracked and engaged, it adds.

• 10 May. 5pm Indian time: US president Donald Trump announced a “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan.

• 10 May, 7.45pm Indian time: Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir report hearing loud explosions at multiple places in the region, including Srinagar, Jammu, and the garrison town of Udhampur.

• 10 May, 11pm Indian time: Indian accuses Pakistan of violating the ceasefire and warns that the military will respond “appropriately”.

India has accused Pakistan of violating a ceasefire after explosions were heard over two cities in India-administered Kashmir just hours after a truce was reached between the two nuclear-armed countries.

Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri blamed Pakistan for violating the truce after “huge” blasts were heard over Srinagar, a city to the north of Indian Kashmir, at around 9pm India time.

“For the last few hours, there have been repeated violations of the ceasefire reached earlier between India and Pakistan,” Mr Misri said. “The armed forces are giving an adequate and appropriate response to these violations.

The Independent’s producer Mohammed Dawood, who is on the ground in Srinagar, said it was “like the city was being bombed”.

Witnesses also saw projectiles over Jammu, to the south, at around 7.45pm India time, nearly three hours after the truce was agreed.

The Independent’s producer Mohammad Dawood, who is in Srinagar, has said it is like the city is “being bombed”.

He first heard explosions at around 9pm Indian time and said they have not stopped since. Footage showed projectiles flying across the night sky.

Chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah said on X: “What the hell just happened to the ceasefire? Explosions heard across Srinagar!!!”

The dramatic flare-up of tensions and targeted cross-border strikes between India and Pakistan this week has raised the spectre of a first all-out war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in decades.

The two countries have fought two wars since independence over the disputed region of Kashmir – and three in total – and the picturesque Himalayan valley is once again at the centre of their standoff. Already arguably the most highly militarised region in the world, with hundreds of thousands of troops and paramilitary forces deployed to maintain security in Indian-administered Kashmir at the best of times.

But taken together, the Indian and Pakistani militaries boast a total of around 2 million armed forces personnel. It means an all-out conflict would be one of the largest by number of combatants since the end of the Second World War.

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