NEW YORK:Vice President JD Vance has said that US hopes that India will respond to the Pahalgam terrorist attack in a way that does not lead to a “broader regional conflict” and expects Pakistan to “cooperate” with New Delhi to “hunt down” militants sometimes operating from their soil.

Vance made these remarks on Thursday in an interview with Fox News. Vance and his family were in India on a four-day visit when the attack – the worst since the Pulwama strike in 2019 – took place.

“Our hope here is that India responds to this terrorist attack in a way that doesn’t lead to a broader regional conflict,” Vance said on Fox News’s ‘Special Report