New Delhi, May 12 -- US-based South Asia analyst Michael Kugelman said on Monday that he believed that India and Pakistan relations "were at one of the lowest points in a number of decades, and they were closer to going to war than at any time since the Kargil crisis"

He noted that the "ceasefire really de-escalated things in a big way" amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions but this ceasefire could be "fragile".

In an interview with the news agency ANI, Kugelman said that the developments were quick, and the ceasefire was sudden and remarkable.

"Well, it's been quite a week, given how we saw such a major escalation in tensions so quickly over the last few days and then for there to be this very sudden ceasefire that appeared to come ...