INDIAN and Pakistani authorities said today that there was no firing reported along the heavily militarised region between their countries, the first time in recent days the two nations were not shooting at each other.

The two nations reached an agreement to stop all military actions on land, in the air and at the sea Saturday in a United States-brokered ceasefire to stop the escalating hostilities between the two nuclear-armed rivals that threatened regional peace.

India’s head of military operations, Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, claims that its attacks last week killed more than 100 militants on the Pakistan side including prominent leaders, the head of India’s military operations claimed on Sunday.

Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Thursday said that his country’s armed forces had killed 40 to 50 Indian soldiers along the Line of Control.

Neither claim has been verified.

But today, the Indian army said in a statement that things now “remained largely peaceful across Jammu and Kashmir, and other areas along the international border.”

Senior military officials from India and Pakistan were scheduled to speak later today to assess if the ceasefire was continuing to hold. 

There were fears it would not hold after they accused each other of violations just hours after it was announced.

Local government officials in Pakistan-administered Kashmir reported that civilians displaced by the fighting were returning to their homes.

Pakistan's military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmad Sharif, said late on Sunday that Pakistan remains committed to upholding the ceasefire and will not be the first to violate it.

Soon after the ceasefire announcement on Saturday, Pakistan reopened all of its airports and restored flight operations.

India followed up today by reopening of all the 32 airports that were shut temporarily across northern and western regions amid the flare up in tensions.

The militaries of the two countries have been engaged in one of their most serious confrontations in decades since last Wednesday, when India struck targets inside Pakistan it said were affiliated with militants responsible for the massacre of 26 tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir. 

The tourists, mostly Indian Hindu men, were brutally killed in front of their families in the meadow town of Pahalgam last month.

India accused Pakistan of backing the militants who carried out the massacre, a charge Islamabad denied. The incident first led to a spat of tit-for-tat diplomatic measures by both the nations, sending their bilateral ties to a near historic low.

The two expelled each other’s diplomats, shut their airspace, land borders and suspended a crucial water treaty.