The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said on Tuesday, as hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals surge after a deadly attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir.

Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, a controversial cleric of Islamabad's Lal Masjid, recently criticised the Pakistani administration and military and accused them of bombing their countrymen, as he cited the situation in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

ISLAMABAD: Amid escalating tensions between Pakistna and India after an attack on tourists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in April, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi arrived