Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.

Tensions at boiling point in the disputed region after India launched retaliatory air strikes on its neighbour

Indian Deputy Foreign Minister Vikram Misri announced on Saturday that Pakistan had breached a ceasefire agreement reached only a few hours earlier and urged the authorities in Islamabad to cease such actions.