A tense silence settled over India and Pakistan as millions woke Thursday: no more missiles had been fired, schools in most areas had reopened and both sides appeared to be claiming victory.

The question now, analysts say, is whether the two sides will claim victory as Pakistan asserts that it downed Indian jets and gauges the toll of India’s strikes.

After India and Pakistan exchanged artillery fire May 6, 2025 in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbors in two decades, a video spread across platforms that purports to show Donald Trump insisting the United States should "let them fight.