| Scroll The ceasefire between India and Pakistan arrived at on Saturday ended three days of the worst fighting seen between the two sides in decades, but the United States publicly claiming credit is a disaster for Indian foreign policy, says defence expert Sushant Singh. The Indian military on May 7 said it launched strikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan following the terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam in April. This was followed by three days of cross-border shelling that escalated to drone attacks on border towns and missile attacks. On Saturday evening, Donald Trump claimed that the US had helped mediate the ceasefire, but India later said that Pakistan’s director general of military operations called up first asking to pause the hostilities. In an interview with Scroll on Sunday, Singh said that whether it was Kargil or other instances where US presidents officials have intervened, they had always been in the background. Click on link below to read full interview. Donald Trump’s public interventions negate India’s view that any crisis with Pakistan and Kashmir are bilateral issues, said defence expert Sushant Singh. scroll.in Also watch: Christine Fair, a professor at Georgetown University and possibly the world’s leading expert on the Pakistani Army, in conversation with Shoaib Daniyal. scroll.in Modi has boxed himself him when dealing with Pakistan, argues defence expert Sushant Singh. scroll.in You might also be interested in reading these: It is unclear what the offensive achieved. But what it revealed is stark. scroll.in The subcontinental version of Israel is Pakistan, not India. scroll.in Many felt the government should have pushed ahead to gain a decisive victory over Pakistan. Others expressed relief that the hostilities had ended. scroll.in There is anger over the Hindutva party’s ‘surrender’ and disappointment that the ‘strongman’ prime minister did not deliver. scroll.in ‘All forms of reasoning or dialogue or critical thought are not only seen as negative but are actively discouraged,’ says peace advocate Lalita Ramdas. scroll.in The India Fix: A newsletter on Indian politics from Scroll. scroll.in See this post on web | 