NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. 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.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's foreign minister said he has told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that perpetrators of the deadly attack in Kashmir last week should be brought to justice, as the U.S. sought to calm tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will speak soon with his counterparts in India and Pakistan and urge them not to escalate tensions over a deadly Islamist militant attack in India-administered Kashmir,