The Group of Seven (G7) major countries urged maximum restraint from both India and Pakistan on Friday and called on them to engage in direct dialogue amid rising hostilities between the two nuclear-armed Asian neighbors.

Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. said on Thursday that India and Pakistan have had contacts at the level of their respective National Security Councils, when asked if the nuclear-armed Asian neighbors had any ongoing lines of conversation.

Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. said on Thursday that India and Pakistan have had contacts at the level of their respective National Security Councils (NSC), when asked if the nuclear-armed Asian neighbors had any ongoing lines of conversation.

Pakistan said early Saturday it had hit multiple military targets, days after India launched its largest strikes inside Pakistan in decades.

Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that India and Pakistan should de-escalate tensions, but he added that the U.S. cannot control the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Pakistan armed forces launched multiple attacks using drones and other munitions along India's entire western border on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the Indian Army said in a post on X on Friday.