At least eight people were killed in a car blast near New Delhi’s historic Red Fort on Monday. Less than 24 hours later, a district courthouse was targeted by a suicide bombing in Islamabad, killing 12 on Tuesday. These successive blasts in the capitals of India and Pakistan have raised tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals, who clashed in May following a terror attack in the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Pakistan has already accused New Delhi of being responsible for the Islamabad bombing. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called it one of the ‘worst examples of Indian state terrorism in the region’, asking the world to ‘condemn such nefarious conspiracies of India’. While the Pakistani government blames India, it also pointed out that the courthouse attack originated in Afghani

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