{"id":71884,"date":"2025-05-20T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/20\/uneasy-india-pakistan-ceasefire-holds-but-is-a-return-to-war-inevitable"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:30:20","slug":"uneasy-india-pakistan-ceasefire-holds-but-is-a-return-to-war-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71884","title":{"rendered":"Uneasy India-Pakistan ceasefire holds but is a return to war inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s interventions have infuriated India, which has emerged from conflict not as triumphant as it had hoped<\/p>\n<p>Against the odds, the ceasefire that followed Indian and Pakistan\u2019s almost-war has held; fragile, uneasy but still unbroken. Yet in the aftermath of four days of cross-border drones and missile strikes \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/14\/pakistans-use-of-j-10c-jets-and-missiles-exposes-potency-of-chinese-arms\">most technologically advanced<\/a> conflict either side has ever engaged in \u2013 the question remains: what now?<\/p>\n<p>While both India and Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/11\/india-and-pakistan-both-claim-victory-after-ceasefire-declared\">have claimed victory<\/a>, some experts fear that a return to hostilities is almost inevitable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/20\/uneasy-india-pakistan-ceasefire-holds-but-is-a-return-to-war-inevitable\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s interventions have infuriated India, which has emerged from conflict not as triumphant as it had hopedAgainst the odds, the ceasefire that followed Indian and Pakistan\u2019s almost-war has held; fragile, uneasy but still unbroken. Yet in the afterm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[415,62,432,60,61,554,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","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\/71884","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71884\/revisions\/71890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}