UN urges India, Pakistan to exercise maximum restraint in wake of Pahalgam terror attack

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls on India and Pakistan to exercise maximum restraint to prevent further deterioration of the tense situation in the subcontinent after a terrorist attack in Kashmir. 

While reiterating the condemnation of the terrorist attack that killed at least 26 people in Pahalgam on Tuesday, spokesperson of the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, said, UN appeals to both the governments of Pakistan and India to exercise maximum restraint, and to ensure that the situation and the



developments do not deteriorate any further. Any issues between Pakistan and India can be and should be resolved peacefully through meaningful mutual engagement, he said.

A front organisation of the internationally banned Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba has taken responsibility for the attack in which mostly tourists were massacred. India took action against Pakistan, expelling diplomats, cancelling some visas for its citizens, and shutting down trade, and Islamabad has retaliated in kind.