Pakistan requests UN Security Council meeting on Kashmir - GulfToday

Pakistan requests UN Security Council meeting on Kashmir

  • 14 Aug 2019
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Shah Mehmood Qureshi listens during a news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan. File photo/ Reuters

Pakistan has asked the United Nations Security Council for an urgent meeting on the contested Kashmir region also claimed by India, according to a letter released by Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday.

Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made the request in a letter to UNSC President Joanna Wronecka, seeking to participate in the meeting under the agenda item ‘India-Pakistan question.’

Reuters

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