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.

Investigators are exploring a potential coordinated terror strategy behind the Pahalgam massacre, linking it to earlier attacks on non-Kashmiris. Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives, including Pakistani and local militants,