U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that India's response to the Islamist militant attack last week in India-administered Kashmir should be done in a way that does not lead to a broader regional conflict.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said.

Kashmiris have denounced last week’s deadly militant assault on tourists in Pahalgam but fear they will be caught in the widening Indian clampdown.