Pakistan says it is not considering military action against India

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad that he would soon travel to China to brief Beijing on the situation that arose after India revoked the special status of the federal state of Jammu and Kashmir, until now guaranteed by the Indian Constitution.
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Shah Mahmud Qureshi, Photo: Reuters
Shah Mahmud Qureshi, Photo: Reuters
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Pakistan said today that it is not considering military action and is instead looking for political and legal options to counter India's decision to revoke the constitutional autonomy of Kashmir, a disputed territory between the two nuclear powers.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad that he will soon travel to China to inform Beijing about the situation that arose after India revoked the special status of the federal state of Jammu and Kashmir, until now guaranteed by the Indian Constitution.

Qureshi rejected India's claims that changing the status of Kashmir is an internal issue and that Pakistan should reconsider its decisions to expel the Indian ambassador and suspend trade and major railway lines with the country.

He said that Pakistan could consider revoking those measures if India does the same with the decision to revoke the constitutional autonomy of Kashmir.

Because of that decision by New Delhi, made on Monday, Pakistan yesterday expelled the Indian ambassador and suspended trade with India, and as of today suspended the main railway line with that country.

After the end of British colonial rule in August 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into majority Hindu India and predominantly Muslim Pakistan.

Mass migrations of Hindus and Muslims followed, and more than a million people were killed in the conflicts.

In October 1947, India and Pakistan began the first war for control of Muslim-majority Kashmir, which ended in 1948 with a UN-brokered ceasefire.

Since then, Kashmir has been divided between two states that claim to lay claim to its entirety.

The second war between India and Pakistan, also over Kashmir, broke out in August 1965, and the two countries agreed to a UN-supervised ceasefire in September of that year.

The two countries, which are now nuclear powers, fought a third war in December 1971, in the east of Pakistan, which ended with the creation of the independent state of Bangladesh.

An armed rebellion against Indian rule in Kashmir began in 1989.

India claims that Pakistan supplies the rebels with weapons and trains them, which Islamabad denies and says it only provides them with moral and diplomatic support.

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