Rubio calls India and Pakistan in bid to cool tensions after tourist massacre

Tensions are high on the border between India and Pakistan (KM Chaudary/AP)

US 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.

Mr Rubio urged Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and Indian foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, to de-escalate tensions on Wednesday.