The U.S. has called on India and Pakistan “not to escalate” the tension between them following the Pahalgam terror attack, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday (April 29, 2025).

Washington was reaching out to both New Delhi and Islamabad regarding the Kashmir situation and telling them not to escalate the situation, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif received a telephone call from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday (April 30, 2025), Mr. Sharif’s office said in a statement. Ms. Bruce had said that Mr. Rubio was expected to speak “at the earliest” to Foreign Ministers of both countries.

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U.S. urges India and Pakistan to ‘de-escalate’; Marco Rubio talks to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif

The U.S. has called on India and Pakistan “not to escalate” the tension between them following the Pahalgam terror attack