Chinese satellite images show India's "Operation Sindoor" caused severe damage to multiple Pakistani air bases.

A video of a gas cylinder truck exploding in India's largest city Mumbai was shared on social media in posts falsely linking it to Indian strikes on Pakistan in May 2025, before the rivals agreed to halt the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in decades.

India and Pakistan engaged in the most intense fighting in decades with four days of escalating conflict that included fighter jets, missiles and drones packed with explosives. It ended almost as abruptly as it began.

The Foreign Secretary will brief Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs on the current situation with Pakistan on May 19, said panel chairman Shashi Tharoor.

Pakistan hit 26 Indian military facilities and dozens of its drones hovered over major Indian cities, including India's capital New Delhi, in offensive operations on Saturday, a Pakistan military spokesperson said at a press briefing late on Sunday.

Without that ceasefire, the subcontinent would likely have devolved into nuclear war sooner or later—a development that would have been catastrophic for the United States.

With last-minute U.S. mediation, cooler heads prevailed between India and Pakistan. But a flare-up is inevitable.

Tension between the nuclear-armed nations is soaring. Pakistan's Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to retaliate after Indian strikes killed more than two dozen people.

By complicating Indian efforts to escalate, while offering a path to peace, Ankara effectively used the war to enhance its own status in the post-American world order.

Iran's foreign minister warned Britain, France and Germany on Monday that a decision to trigger a U.N. mechanism reimposing sanctions on Tehran could lead to an irreversible escalation of tensions.

After the launch of Operation Sindoor on May 7, India communicated to various countries that its response to every Pakistani military action would be more forceful and decisive, they said

The official has been asked to leave India within 24 hours, they added. "Charge d’ Affaires, Pakistan High Commission, was issued a demarche to this effect today," a source said.