Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated following the Pahalgam terror incident, with Pakistan's deputy PM calling the attackers "freedom fighters." India responded by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty and implementing visa restrictions.

US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce shunned a Pakistani journalist's questioning over India-Pakistan border tensions following the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who cut short his Saudi Arabia visit following the Pahalgam terrorist attack and avoided Pakistan airspace on the way back to India, chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security on Wednesday afternoon to draw up a response to what he had earlier termed as a “heinous act”.