As the archrivals halt hostilities after four days of fighting, analysts discuss if either gained an upper hand.
![Pakistan and India agreed to a ceasefire on May 10, after four days of intense fighting [Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AP25130515538452-1747089249.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As the archrivals halt hostilities after four days of fighting, analysts discuss if either gained an upper hand.
![Pakistan and India agreed to a ceasefire on May 10, after four days of intense fighting [Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AP25130515538452-1747089249.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Pakistan and India fired missiles at each other’s airbases in the latest escalation between the neighbours.

South Asian nuclear powers agree to an immediate ceasefire after days of military escalation and dozens of deaths.

Pakistan says it will hit India at time and place it chooses. Experts say military bases could be the next targets.
![A boy collects papers from the debris of a residential house damaged by cross-border shelling in Gingal village near the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan, in Indian-administered Kashmir's Baramulla district on May 9, 2025 [Stringer/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-05-09T022211Z_831708882_RC22EEARWY1S_RTRMADP_3_INDIA-PAKISTAN-1746775839.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
At least three people were killed in the strike at a compound with a complicated past.

India carried out strikes early on Wednesday against Pakistan, two weeks after an attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

These were the updates on the increasing tension between Pakistan and India for Wednesday, May 7.

Pakistan’s ex-NSA says lack of crisis mechanisms could spark conflict with India after deadly Kashmir attack.
![Currently serving as the Vice Chancellor for the Lahore-based Beaconhouse National University, Moeed Yusuf was Pakistan's national security adviser from May 2021 to April 2022 [Courtesy of Beaconhouse National University]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MY-from-BNU-1746198831.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The roots of this decades-long conflict between India and Pakistan go back to the turbulent partition of 1947.
![Pakistan and India have fought three wars over the contested region of Kashmir since gaining independence in August 1947 [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-25T143718Z_1775153349_RC205EA57BDT_RTRMADP_3_INDIA-KASHMIR-ATTACK-1745648720.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Analysts believe a Pakistani pullout from the Simla Agreement could dismantle key diplomatic safeguards with India.
