The United Nations has urged India and Pakistan to show "maximum restraint" following a deadly attack in Pahalgam, India-held Kashmir. The shooting, which killed 26 tourists and injured 17 others, has triggered a serious diplomatic standoff between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

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.

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.