At 2.09 am on Saturday, Ahmad Subhan, who lives near an air base in the Pakistan military garrison city of Rawalpindi, heard the first explosion that rattled the windows of his house - and took South Asia to the brink of war.

Through the media, both sides are trying to shape perceptions of what the fighting has achieved and who has “won”.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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.