Bonomala Santra, mother of Bablu Santra, a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who was killed after a suicide bomber rammed a car into the bus carrying CRPF personnel in south Kashmir on Thursday, wails next to a coffin containing the remains of her son at Bauria village in Howrah district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - The United States has told India it supports its right to defend itself against cross-border attacks, the government in New Delhi said on Saturday as it considers retaliation against a car bombing in disputed Kashmir claimed by Pakistan-based militants.
Tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have risen again after India, incensed by the killing of 44 paramilitary police in the deadliest attack in Kashmir in decades, demanded that Pakistan act against the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant group behind the bombing.
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