Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials from India and Pakistan, looking to mediate between the two following a terrorist attack in Kashmir that India blamed on its northwestern neighbor.

NEW DELHI (AP) — 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.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will speak soon with his counterparts in India and Pakistan and urge them not to escalate tensions over a deadly Islamist militant attack in India-administered Kashmir,