UN: Pakistan is asking for a meeting of the UN Security Council due to rising tensions with India, a Security Council source told TASS. ...
UN: Pakistan is asking for a meeting of the UN Security Council due to rising tensions with India, a Security Council source told TASS.
"Pakistan is demanding a Security Council meeting. The date has not yet been set," the source said.
Last week a terrorist attack killed at least 26 people in a Himalayan tourist destination in the Pahalgam area of the Kashmir valley.
The Muslim-majority region is claimed by both India and Pakistan, and has been the site of several wars, an insurgency and diplomatic standoffs.
India has accused Pakistan’s Interagency Intelligence Service of involvement in the attack, carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba group (banned in Russia).
Pakistan denies this. Islamabad has said it has intelligence that India intends to launch military action and retaliated by halting all border trade, closing its airspace to Indian carriers and expelling Indian diplomats.
India halved the staff of the embassy in Islamabad, suspended an agreement on the allocation of water and the issuance of visas to Pakistanis. New Delhi has also declared the military advisers of the diplomatic mission of the Islamic Republic persona non grata.
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