The United States is stepping up pressure on India and Pakistan to avoid conflict in Kashmir after a tourist massacre in an Indian-administered area of the divided territory last week.

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.

Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Friday urged residents near the India border to stockpile supplies as tensions rose after a deadly April 22 attack in Indian Kashmir, with cross-border gunfire and