Ramdas Athawale's comments come a day after Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal reiterated that the ceasefire came about after Pakistan's director-general of military operations contacted India's DGMO.

Euclid is a six-year mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) aimed at mapping the dark universe by analyzing the positions of galaxies and capturing images of dark matter through gravitational lensing distortions of distant galaxies.

A series of military strikes last week by India and Pakistan brought the nuclear-armed rivals closer to a broader war.

President Donald Trump set out on a three-nation visit to the Middle East on Monday, a trip he had originally intended to use to focus on his efforts to press wealthy Gulf nations to pour billions in new investment into the United States.

How India threads the diplomatic needle - courting favour with Trump over issues like trade while asserting its own interests in the Kashmir conflict - will depend in large part on domestic politics and could determine the future prospects for conflict in Kashmir.

Pakistan's government press office told NBC News that it had targeted and destroyed a missile storage site, an air base, and an airfield inside India near the border. It also said it had launched a cyber operation, claiming to have hacked several Indian government websites.