By Asif Shahzad, Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Shivam PatelISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Tuesday that it remains committed to the truce with India, agreed after four days of intense fighting last week,

Following India's decision to declare a Pakistani citizen at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi "persona non grata," Pakistan also declared a staff member of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad "persona non grata,

As tensions ratcheted up over the last week of fighting, Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India, the country’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar told CNN on Monday.

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

The spokesman for India’s foreign ministry said top leaders in New Delhi and Washington were in touch last week following the Indian military’s intense standoff with Pakistan, but that there was no conversation on trade.

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.

1972 — India and Pakistan sign a peace accord, renaming the ceasefire line in Kashmir as the Line of Control, a heavily fortified stretch of military outposts that divide the region between them. Both sides deploy more troops along the frontier, turning it into a heavily fortified stretch of military outposts.

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday strongly condemned India's unprovoked aggression and said the entire Pakistani nation stands united and ready to respond to any threat. He emphasized that Indian hostility had only strengthened the resolve of the people and the armed forces of Pakistan.