{"id":71684,"date":"2025-05-10T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/may\/10\/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-attacked-by-indian-missiles-live-updates"},"modified":"2025-05-11T04:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:58:58","slug":"pakistan-launches-retaliatory-strikes-targeting-india-says-state-run-pakistan-television-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71684","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan says it is committed to Kashmir ceasefire after India accuses it of \u2018violations\u2019 \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This liveblog is now closed. Read our full report on the ceasefire agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/india-pakistan-immediate-us-mediated-ceasefire\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who is <strong>Asim Munir<\/strong>, the army chief leading Pakistan\u2019s military amid the crisis with India?<\/p>\n<p>The general once fell foul of <strong>Imran Khan<\/strong>, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government and supreme court, as our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/who-is-gen-asim-munir-army-chief-leading-pakistan-military-over-india-crisis\">profile here<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.<\/p>\n<p>Since Gen Munir took over as Pakistan\u2019s army chief more than two years ago, he has been accused of quietly consolidating greater power without even having to topple the country\u2019s civilian rulers. As he kept himself largely out of the limelight, he consolidated an iron grip over the army\u2019s ranks and bent government policy and even the supreme court to his will.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/may\/10\/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-attacked-by-indian-missiles-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This liveblog is now closed. Read our full report on the ceasefire agreement hereWho is Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan\u2019s military amid the crisis with India?The general once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been q&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71684"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71684\/revisions\/71728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}