Soldiers in India and Pakistan exchanged fire across the Line of Control over the weekend and the Indian Navy said on Sunday that its warships testfired missiles in the Arabian Sea to “revalidate and demonstrate” its “readiness” for long-range precision “offensive” strikes.

Members of the Indian diaspora staged protests across several countries on Sunday, condemning the horrific terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir that killed at least 26 people, including foreign tourists and left several others injured.

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.