Wed 14 August 2019:
The Pakistani government asked the United Nations Security Council to meet over India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Pakistan will not provoke a conflict. But India should not mistake our restraint for weakness,” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote in a letter to the council seen by Reuters news agency.
“If India chooses to resort again to the use of force, Pakistan will be obliged to respond, in self-defense, with all its capabilities,” he said, adding that “in view of the dangerous implications” Pakistan requested the meeting.
It was not immediately clear how the 15-member council would respond to the request and whether a member of the body would also need to make a formal request.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz told reporters at the UN that the council had received a letter from Pakistan and “will discuss that issue and take a proper decision”.
Poland holds the presidency of the council for August.
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