UN Security Council discusses grim Kashmir situation amid Pakistan-India tensions

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to meet UN Secretary General

The UN Security Council discussed the grim situation in Kashmir for the second time since August 5 revocation of the autonomous status of the disputed territory under Indian control.

The council met behind-closed-doors months as diplomats expressed concern over Pakistan-India tensions just hour before the arrival of Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi for a meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Pakistan and India have been in a state of heightened tension since the right-wing BJP Government in New Delhi – led by PM Narendra Modi – imposed stringent restrictions on Kashmiris with a heavy military clampdown once India changed the status of the territory – recognized by UN as disputed and partly administered by Pakistan and India. China also controls parts of the territory.

 

 “We had a meeting on Jammu and Kashmir,”  China’s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York.

 The 15-member Council, he said, heard a briefing from the UN secretariat on the situation.

 Pakistan and China had requested the Council to consider the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Iftikhar Ali is a veteran Pakistani journalist, former president of UN Correspondents Association, and a recipient of the Pride of Performance civil award
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