Nigeria, May 3 -- India blocked the Instagram account of former Pakistani prime minister and cricket star Imran Khan on Saturday as part of new measures against Islamabad.

This came after India accused Pakistan of supporting a deadly attack on civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, where 26 men lost their lives.

Pakistan has denied the accusation, but the tension between the two countries has only grown, with gunfire exchanges across the disputed Kashmir border.

Alongside blocking social media access, India's communications ministry announced it was stopping all incoming mail and parcels from Pakistan by both air and land.

Earlier, the two countries had already expelled each other's citizens, shut down the main border c...