eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Stewing in the Manosphere JAIPUR,LATECITY MAY11,2025 Masculinity is being defined by teens through bullying, cyber crime and self-harm. FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT 12+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 AFTERLONG NIGHTOF TALKSMEDIATED BY U.S. ... INDIA,PAKISTANHAVE AGREED TO A FULL AND IMMEDIATECEASEFIRE U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP 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 PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER SHEHBAZ SHARIF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER S JAISHANKAR 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 at the centre of Pakistan's hostile actionsagainstIndia.Infact,itwas Munir’sinflammatoryrhetoricon 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 FULLCOVERAGE,PAGES3,4 NSA DOVAL AND WANG YI TALK BLACKOUTS, DRONES: SRINAGAR TO BARMER Trump claims credit; Hours later, violations Delhi’s new red lines: by Pak; it should take terror from Pak ‘act of serious steps: Misri war’, Indus pause stays EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE 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,“TheDirectorGeneralof Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan called the Director Generalof MilitaryOperationsof Indiaat1535hoursISTearliertoday.Itwasagreedbetweenthem thatbothsideswouldstopallfiring and military action on land and in the air and sea with effect from1700hoursIndianStandard Time today. Instructions have been given on both sides to give BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY SRINAGAR, NEW DELHI, CHANDIGARH, AHMEDABAD, MAY 10 FIRINGS AND DRONE sightings in the border areas — from Srinagar and Anantnag in Jammu & Kashmir to Barmer in Rajasthan and Kutch in Gujarat 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 agreed on a full and immediate ceasefire “after a long night of talks mediated by the United States”. External Affairs Minister CONTINUEDONPAGE2 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 Pakistani bases at Rafiqui CONTINUEDONPAGE2 FROM GROUND ZERO Panic in the skies, rumour on the ground: When a missile was intercepted over Sirsa 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 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 IAS 2025 esa jktLFkku esa igyh jSad (AIR- 20 th ) d lkFk lokZf/kd p;u !! s st AIR 20 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 (Shorkot, Jhang), Murid (Chakwal), Nur Khan (Chaklala, Rawalpindi) Rahim Yar Khan, SukkurandChunian(Kasur).The air bases in Skardu, Bholari, JacobabadandSargodhaalsosuffered extensive damage. Radar sites at Pasrur and Sialkot were targeted using precision munitions. It is learnt that air-launched precision weapons such as the HAMMER(HighlyAgileModular Hindu-Muslim relations and Kashmir that prefaced the Pahalgam attack, the trigger of the fiercest standoff since the Kargil war. Rubio had already spoken to Our Top Rankers in IAS Result 2025 —hoursaftertheannouncement to stop firing and military actions,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 BrahMos likely used in precision attacks on dozen Pakistan air bases Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri during a briefing on Operation Sindoor. 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