Dhaka, May 12 -- Having drawn back from the brink of all-out war, India and Pakistan have been exchanging conflicting versions of what exactly brought about the ceasefire mediated by the United States, that was first announced by President Donald Trump on Saturday evening (in South Asia, morning in the US).

The announcement came as a surprise, since there was no prior word that the US was even involved in any kind of mediation effort. Trump had repeatedly indicated it was too complicated for him, characterising it as a conflict stretching back millenia, while his vice president J.D. Vance, who was in India on April 22 when the terrorist attack at Pahalgam in Kashmir killing 26 people took place, had even said it was "fundamentally none o...