Soldiers in India and Pakistan exchanged fire across the Line of Control over the weekend and the Indian Navy said on Sunday that its warships testfired missiles in the Arabian Sea to “revalidate and demonstrate” its “readiness” for long-range precision “offensive” strikes.

An attack on tourists in India's Himalayan territory of Kashmir this week sparked a new crisis between nuclear armed South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan, with New Delhi blaming militants with "cross-border linkages" for the killings.

The Indian military says Pakistani soldiers fired at Indian posts all along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir as tensions flare over attack on tourists.