The April 22 terrorist attack in Kashmir inflamed a long-simmering conflict that could boil over into military confrontation.

India and Pakistan are scrambling resources both military and diplomatic to respond to a crisis triggered by a massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that has heightened fears of a conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.

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