Chidambaram calls ceasefire timeline ‘intriguing’

A day after US-brokered ceasefire was announced between India and Pakistan, senior Congress leader and former Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday termed the sequence of events surrounding the truce “intriguing”.

The ceasefire came after four days of intense cross-border hostilities between India and Pakistan. US President Donald Trump took to social media on Saturday evening to announce the ceasefire.

Commenting on the matter, Chidambaram posted on social media, “The DGMO, Pakistan, called the DGMO, India, at 3.35 pm and proposed a ceasefire, and India agreed. President Trump tweeted the ceasefire at 5.25 pm. A few minutes later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tweeted that India and Pakistan will meet for talks at a ‘neutral site’. India’s Foreign Secretary made a brief statement at 6 pm.”

“The timeline of the events or announcements is intriguing. India’s Foreign Secretary made no reference to President Trump or Secretary Marco Rubio or a forthcoming meeting or a neutral site. That is intriguing too,” he added.

India launched “Operation Sindoor" on May 7, which the government said was launched to target nine terror sites inside Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(POK) to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 civilians dead on April 22.

The security agencies had held Resistance Front, said to be a shadowy group of Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) for the Pahalgam attack on tourists.

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