New developments in the nuclear powers’ harrowing four-day conflict, along with entrenched religious nationalism on each side, could signal more frequent battles ahead.

Poet Zareef Ahmed Zareef has watched India and Pakistan fight for decades over his homeland, the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. He was born in 1947, the same year India and Pakistan became independent nations and British colonial rule ended.

Efforts to mediate the India-Pakistan conflict are not going to work "unless the U.S. steps in with full sincerity," Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, told NPR.

Pakistani officials have said Saturday’s ceasefire with India reestablished deterrence. But New Delhi insists the rules of engagement have irrevocably changed.

President Trump on Saturday morning signaled that India and Pakistan have agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire following a slew of tit-for-tat strikes, with some targeting

Indian missiles struck Pakistan and the Pakistani-ruled part of Kashmir, a territory both sides claim. These were in retaliation for a terrorist attack on April 22nd that killed 26 civilians in the part of Kashmir that India controls.

Thousands of migrant workers from Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh have fled industrial zones across Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat over the past fortnight, fearing escalation in India-Pakistan tensions.