Pakistan must shut down terrorist organisations to avoid further sharp confrontations with India, as the Pahalgam terror attack had brought the country to the brink of war, former Pakistani ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani has said.

India and Pakistan have taken each other to the brink of war in recent weeks but both sides say they have stepped back from escalating tensions for the moment.

On the morning of 10 May, a splinter from a Pakistani shell that fell in north Jammu's Khairi village, pierced through a window of 47-year-old Zakir Hussain's two-bedroom house.