In a further escalation, the two sides have repeatedly exchanged gun and artillery fire across the Line of Control that demarcates India-held Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistani-controlled Azad Kashmir,

An attack on tourists in India's Himalayan territory of Kashmir this week sparked a new crisis between nuclear armed South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan, with New Delhi blaming militants with "cross-border linkages" for the killings.

A deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam district killed 26, people, mostly tourists, around 2 pm on April 22. A group of terrorists started firing indiscriminately at tourists at the Baisaran meadow,