An attack on tourists in India's Himalayan territory of Kashmir this week sparked a new crisis between nuclear armed South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan, with New Delhi blaming militants with "cross-border linkages" for the killings.

Reports suggest that while the residence of Thokkar was blown up using IEDs, the house of Sheikh was demolished with a bulldozer.

Authorities demolished the houses of Adil Thokar and Asif Shaikh, linked to the deadly Pahalgam attack, in Anantnag and Awantipora. Thokar, allegedly instrumental in the attack that killed 26 people,