PAKISTAN PREMIER VOWS TO CHALLENGE INDIA OVER KASHMIR MOVE
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed Tuesday to challenge at the UN security council India’s decision to strip Kashmir of its special autonomy, a move he warned could provoke conflict in the region.
Khan gave a forceful rebuke of Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s decision Monday to scrap the special status granted to the Indian-ruled part of Kashmir from India’s constitution in front of a joint-session of parliament in Islamabad.
“I want to make it clear that we will fight this issue on every forum, (including) at the UN security council,” said Khan,
I want to make it clear that we will fight this issue on every forum, (including) at the UN security council
who also promised to raise the issue with heads of state and take the matter to the International Criminal Court.
Khan demanded action from the global community as he accused Modi of violating international law in pursuit of an anti-muslim agenda in India.
“If the world does not act today... (if) the developed world does not uphold its own laws, then things will go to a place that we will not be responsible for,” Khan added.
He went on to warn that “there will be a reaction” from Kashmiris if India tries to “crush them”, likely leading to more violence in the region which in the past has brought the nuclear-armed rivals close to conflict.
Pakistan’s military announced it “firmly stands” by Kashmiris following a meeting of the army’s top commanders in the garrison city of Rawalpindi to discuss India’s move.
“Pakistan never recognised the sham Indian efforts to legalise its occupation” of the disputed mountainous region, spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said. ISLAMABAD (AFP), 6 AUG, 2019