Pakistan called India's actions “irresponsible" and canceled visas for Indian nationals, suspended all trade with India and closed its airspace to Indian aircraft.

India and Pakistan have intensified their hostilities over the hotly contested Kashmir region following a massacre of 26 mostly Indian tourists, which New Delhi linked to Pakistan

The United Nations has urged India and Pakistan to exercise “maximum restraint” after they ramped up a tit-for-tat diplomatic offensive following a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashm

The attack comes after years of relative peace, punctuated only by relatively minor violence, something that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attributed to improved security in Kashmir ever since the revocation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in 2019, which gave the then-state of Jammu and Kashmir additional autonomy.

UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that issues between India and Pakistan should be peacefully resolved through 'meaningful mutual engagement'.

In response to the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, the Indian government has taken major diplomatic and strategic decisions aimed at mounting pressure on Pakistan. During a high-level Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting held at the Prime Minister’s residence on April 23,