As tensions ratcheted up over the last week of fighting, Pakistan did not consider deploying nuclear warheads to strike India, the country’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar told CNN on Monday. In his first interview since India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire Saturday,

Civilian airports were reopened and stocks jumped in both nations, signs of confidence that the agreement to halt the most alarming fighting in decades was holding.

Ahead of the India and Pakistan military level talks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a high-level meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the three service chiefs and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval at his 7,