By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Shivam Patel ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said on Tuesday,

The OIC statement is absurd in refusing to recognise the facts of the Pahalgam terrorist attack and its cross-border linkages,’ the MEA said.

On closed-door UNSC meeting on Kashmir, India's former permanent representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin says, "...In the Security Council, the way the responses work is - highest is a resolution, after that a presidential statement,