eye MCS/204/2020-22RNINO.MAHENG2002/21899 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Stewing in the Manosphere MUMBAI,LATECITY MAY11,2025 Masculinity is being defined by teens through bullying, cyber crime and self-harm FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT 14+4PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM CEASEFIRE... After most intense fighting since Kargil, set off by the Pahalgam terror attack, India and Pakistan announce end to military action — but Islamabad’s intentions pose the test AFTER LONG NIGHT OF TALKS MEDIATED BY U.S. ... INDIA, PAKISTAN HAVE AGREED TO A FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE INDIA HAS CONSISTENTLY MAINTAINED UNCOMPROMISING STANCE AGAINST TERRORISM... WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO PAKISTAN APPRECIATES THE U.S. FOR FACILITATINGTHIS...WEHAVEACCEPTED IN INTEREST OF REGIONAL PEACE U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER S JAISHANKAR PAK PRIME MINISTER SHEHBAZ SHARIF SRINAGAR, A TALE OF TWO CITIES: Residents streamed into Lal Chowk soon after the ceasefire was announced Saturday; barely hours later, drones were spotted in the sky. Shuaib Masoodi & AP’s Rafiq Maqbool 11/05/2025 108 136 168 70 How the needle moved: Escalation by Pak, call from Rubio to Munir SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, MAY 10 BEHIND THE truce between IndiaandPakistanafterfourdays of intensemilitaryhostilities,the firstimportantsignwasacallbetween US Secretary of State and NationalSecurityAdvisorMarco Rubio and Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen Asim Munir. Rubio, who spoke to Munir, saidthathe“offeredUSassistance instartingconstructivetalksinordertoavoidfutureconflicts.”This was the first direct contact betweentheUSadministrationand thePakistanArmyChief,theman CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BLACKOUTS, DRONES FROM SRINAGAR TO BARMER Trump claims credit; Hours later, violations by Pak; it Delhi’s new red lines: should take serious steps: Misri terror from Pak ‘act of war’, Indus pause stays EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE SRINAGAR, NEW DELHI, CHANDIGARH, AHMEDABAD, MAY 10 SHUBHAJIT ROY, AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA & RITIKA CHOPRA NEW DELHI, MAY 10 EIGHTEEN DAYS after a deadly terror attack in J&K’s Pahalgam prompted India to launch a militarystrikeagainstPakistanleading to four days of fierce confrontation, the two nuclear-armedcountriesagreed to stop firing and military action from 5 pm Saturday, marking an end to hostilities. Announcing the ceasefire, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri saidatamediabriefingSaturday evening, “The Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan called the Director General of Military Operations of India at 1535 hours IST earlier today. It was agreed between them that both sides would stop all firing and military action on land and in the air and sea with effect from 1700 hours Indian BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY FIRINGS AND DRONE sightings in the border areas — from Srinagar and Anantnag in Jammu & Kashmir to Barmer in Rajasthan and Kutch in Gujarat —hoursaftertheannouncement to stop firing and military ac- tions,highlightedhowPakistan’s intentions and the bilateral trust deficit will continue to test how the ceasefire will endure. In a late night briefing, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri who announced the ceasefire at 6 pm in a press conference, was back to point out the violations by Pakistan. “For the last few hours, there have been repeated violations of the understanding arrivedatearlierthiseveningbe- tween the Directors General of Military Operations of India and Pakistan,” he said. Misri said this was “a breach of the understanding arrived at earlier today”. “The Armed Forces are giving an adequate and appropriate response to these violations and we take very very serious note of these violations.WecalluponPakistan to take appropriate steps to CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 What has changed: India’s terms of engagement on terror and ties Standard Time today. Instructions have been given on both sides to give effect to the understanding.” The DGMOs will talk again at noon on May 12, he said. The United States, however, claimed credit for brokering the ceasefire. President Donald Trump said the two countries CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 C Raja Mohan YET ANOTHER military confrontation between India and Pakistan has come to an end and thistime,aftertheirmostintense fightingintwodecades,theterms of engagement between Delhi and Rawalpindi have changed. India’s effort to break out of theconstrictingcornerformedby Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and cross-border terrorism has produced some key advances: the willingness and ability to attack Pakistan’s heartland in west Panjab and reopen the Indus Water Treaty. Since it came to power in 2014, the Modi government has sought to alter the traditional terms of engagement with Pakistan shaped by its nuclear weapons and its pursuit of cross-border terror with impunity. In the crisis that followed Pakistan’s terror attack on Uri in 2016, Delhi signalled that the Line of Control was no longer sacrosanct and it would be ready to cross it to attack the terror infrastructureinPakistan-occupied Kashmir. In the wake of the Pulwama terror attacks in 2019, Delhi chose to go beyond PoK CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BrahMos likely used in precision attacks on dozen Pak air bases AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA & SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, MAY 10 IN RETALIATORY precision strikes on Pakistani military bases early Saturday, the Indian armed forces are learnt to have used the latest missiles, guided munitions and loitering munitions in their arsenal. The sites targeted were the PakistanibasesatRafiqui(Shorkot, Jhang), Murid (Chakwal), Nur Khan (Chaklala, Rawalpindi) Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur and Chunian (Kasur). The air bases in Skardu, Bholari, Jacobabad and Sargodha also suffered extensive damage.RadarsitesatPasrurand Sialkotweretargetedusingprecision munitions. It is learnt that air-launched precision weapons such as the HAMMER(HighlyAgileModular Munition Extended Range), an air-to-surface precision-guided munition, and the SCALP, an airlaunched cruise missile, and the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles were likely used in the attacks. The use of the BrahMos missile in the attack – there was no AFGHANISTAN NSA DOVAL AND WANG YI TALK Skardu Chaklala Murid Sialkot PAKISTAN Pasrur Rafiqui Jacobabad Chunian Rahim YarKhan INDIA Sukkur Bholari PAKBASES TARGETED PAKRADAR SITESHIT official word on it though – would mark the first-ever demonstrationof thecruisemissile in actual combat. Both the HAMMER precision-guided munition and the SCALP cruise missiles can be launched from the IAF’s Rafale fighters. The targets were chosen carefully, considering the Indian military’s decision to strike only identified Pakistani military CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FROM GROUND ZERO Till night before, J&K official handled border Panic in the skies, rumour on the ground: relief. Saturday morning, Pak shell killed him When a missile was intercepted over Sirsa ARUN SHARMA JAMMU, MAY 10 UNTIL LATE Friday night, AdditionalDistrictDevelopment Commissioner (ADDC) Raj Kumar Thappa was busy finalising arrangements for the safety of residents along the Line of Control in Rajouri, facing crossborder shelling from Pakistan. Hours later, the Jammu and KashmirAdministrativeServices (JKAS) officer was dead, falling J&K CM Omar Abdullah with the family of Rajouri ADDC Raj Kumar Thappa (above), who was killed in Pakistani shelling, Saturday. PTI victim to one such shell. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed his condolencesatthedeathof Thappa,55, a 2001-batch JKAS officer. Abdullah, who visited Thappa’s family in Roop Nagar area of Jammu city, posted on X: “We have lost a dedicated officer of the J&KAdministration Services. Just yesterday he was accompanyingtheDeputyCMaroundthe district & attended the online meeting I chaired… I’ve no CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ABHIMANYU HAZARIKA & VARINDER BHATIA SIRSA, CHANDIGARH, MAY 10 FARMER BIRENDER Singh (58), alongwithhiswifeandchildren, was sleeping on the terrace of theirhomeonFridaynight,overlookingthecropfieldswherethe wheat had recently been harvested. At 12:18 am, loud explosions were heard in their village of Khaja Kheda. “All of us came out Debris of a Pakistani missile that was intercepted in Sirsa, Haryana, on Saturday. Express on the street, in panic,” he told The Indian Express. Little did he know how close he was to the action unfolding between India and Pakistan – what residents heard was the sound of a Pakistani missile being intercepted in the skies, and its debris landing in the area. “Weweresostunnedthatwe did not even capture a video on our phones,” he recalled, saying that they did click some photographs of the remnants of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2