President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States is ready to help India and Pakistan in the wake of a ceasefire agreement that he says his administration helped broker.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has strongly criticized Donald Trump's remarks on India-Pakistan tensions, deeming them 'deeply disappointing.' Tharoor argues Trump's stance risks reversing diplomatic progress by equating victim and perpetrator,

As tensions ratcheted up over the last week of fighting, Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India, the country’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar told CNN on Monday.

US President Donald Trump has taken credit for stopping a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan, saying his administration brokered a "full and immediate ceasefire" between the two countries.

Pakistan's army said on Tuesday 11 armed forces and 40 civilians were killed in a military clash with neighbour India, after a weekend ceasefire agreed between the nuclear-armed rivals and announced by U.

In such a scenario, where Pakistan faces an existential threat, or believes that its territory is about to be overrun, it may decide to “go nuclear”—even at the risk of self-destruction. The latest test of this pattern arose in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Indian-Administered Kashmir on April 22.

Twenty-four hours before President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire had been reached between India and Pakistan, the White House worked to de-escalate the situation.

How India threads the diplomatic needle - courting favour with Trump over issues like trade while asserting its own interests in the Kashmir conflict - will depend in large part on domestic politics and could determine the future prospects for conflict in Kashmir.