Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan denied in a televised address that his country had anything to do with the bombing. India has long blamed Pakistan for the nearly 30-year revolt in Jammu and Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state. The United States had told India it supported its right to defend itself against cross-border attacks, India said. Dhillon said one of the militants killed on Monday was from Indian Kashmir while the other two were from Pakistan. Jammu and Kashmir, a former princely state on the border between India and Pakistan, has been in dispute since the partition of India in 1947.

Source: bd News24 February 19, 2019 08:48 UTC