After four intense days of conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the US intervened to facilitate a ceasefire. Experts from both countries view this mediation as a temporary reprieve rather than a foundation for lasting peace. According to India's former envoy to the US, the US effectively used economic leverage to induce Pakistan to cease hostilities. Analysts pointed out that both nations needed a ceasefire while grappling with national pride, and that the escalation served as a test of military resolve for each side.
The US has played a helpful role in getting Pakistan to agree to a ceasefire. The US leveraged IMF conditionalities and much more to hasten the end of hostilities.
Pakistan and India both needed a ceasefire but neither country wanted to be the one that asked for it first due to national pride and leaders' egos.
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