Pakistan said on Tuesday it was considering further diplomatic and military pres...
ISLAMABAD/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan said on Tuesday it was considering further diplomatic and military pressure on India after the Hindu-majority nation stripped its portion of contested Kashmir of special status.
Nuclear arch-rivals India and Pakistan both claim Muslim-majority Kashmir in full but rule it in part. They have fought two wars over the territory and came close to a third this year after a car bomb set off by a Pakistan-based militant group killed dozens of Indian paramilitary police. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, accusing India of violating Security Council resolutions on Kashmir.
“We are prepared and shall go to any extent to fulfil our obligations in this regard,” he added, without elaborating further.In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir around 45km from the contested border between the neighbors, protests continued for a second day with hundreds of people including children shouting anti-India slogans.
Tanveer-ul-Islam migrated from India to Muzaffarabad in 1990. His family, including his elderly mother and siblings, live in the Badgam district of Indian Kashmir, but he said he has been unable to contact them for two days.“My day does not begin until I speak to my mother, but I have not been able to talk to her Aug 4. You can’t even imagine my pain,” he said. “We do not know about the well being of anyone across the divide”.
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