Pakistan has denied any involvement in the attack in Kashmir and has called Indian strikes in Pakistani territory “an act of war.” Officials in Pakistan have vowed to respond to the strikes.

The escalation began after India accused Pakistan of being behind an attack where gunmen killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in India-administered Kashmir on April 22. Pakistan denies it.

Efforts to mediate the India-Pakistan conflict are not going to work "unless the U.S. steps in with full sincerity," Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, told NPR.

Tensions between India and Pakistan remain high days after Delhi launched airstrikes at its neighbor, sparking tit-for-tat military action from both sides and widespread confusion as competing ...

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It is not altogether surprising, then, that Pakistan has a penchant for nuclear posturing. Much to New Delhi’s chagrin, Islamabad has successfully used the specter of nuclear war in its previous ...

India and Pakistan have each laid claim to Kashmir since war broke out following the British partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Border skirmishes have long created instability in South Asia.

Efforts to mediate the India-Pakistan conflict are not going to work "unless the U.S. steps in with full sincerity," Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, told NPR.