Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Friday urged brotherly countries, including Saudi Arabia, to impress upon India to de-escalate and defuse tensions heightened after the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.

Following the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26, India suspended the Indus Water Treaty, shut airspace to Pakistan, and gave its forces operational freedom. Tensions soared as Pakistan ramped up security around Hafiz Saeed and shut madrassas.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to pursue the assailants behind last month's attack on tourists in Kashmir to the "ends of the earth". India says two of the three "terrorists" involved in the attack were from arch-enemy Pakistan,