Many in the region are preparing for a possible military confrontation between India and Pakistan because of a terrorist attack two weeks ago.

India and Pakistan have shut their only open land border and closed their airspace to each other's airlines. They have also barred all ships bearing the other's flag from visiting their ports, and said that their own ships will no longer visit the other's ports.

India and Pakistan are scrambling resources both military and diplomatic to respond to a crisis triggered by a massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that has heightened fears of a conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.