New Delhi, May 6 -- As tensions between India and Pakistan escalated, Russia made attempts to "offer assistance" to the warring neighbours. While Russian President Vladimir Putin conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a phone call that Russia fully backs India's fight against terrorism and that the perpetrators of the Pahalgam terror attack must be brought to justice, a day earlier Putin's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar, offering assistance in facilitating a political settlement to the standoff sparked in the subcontinent.

Nontheless, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi who arrived in Pakistan on Monday to hold talks ahead of his trip to India on Thursday asked India and Pakistan to "...