Cease-fire agreed on Kashmir frontier

The Indian and Pakistani armies will stop firing across the disputed Kashmir frontier from midnight tonight in a further easing of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, officials said.

The two armies – which fire machine guns and automatic rifles at each other almost daily – will observe a cease-fire along the international border, or Line of Control, that divides the Himalayan region between the South Asian nations, said a statement from India’s External Affairs Ministry.