Pakistan army spokesman Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry and Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan, Dar demanded an independent and transparent probe by neutral investigators in the Pahalgam attack.

India has closed its airspace to all aircraft registered in Pakistan and those operated by Pakistani airlines, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), another major step following the April 22 terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam in which 26 people were killed.

Following the Pahalgam terror attack, Indian students at Harvard protested a “Pakistan Conference,” saying it risks legitimising state-backed terror narratives on campus.