News @ 3 - 15th August 2019

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency session in New York on Friday (tomorrow) to discuss Jammu and Kashmir dispute, Radio Pakistan reported.

According to diplomatic sources, the UN Security Council will discuss the Kashmir dispute under agenda item Pakistan-India question.

Experts deem this development as a big success for Kashmir and Pakistan as this debate is taking place after many decades.

A day earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi wrote to the to the president of the Security Council, requesting to convene a meeting on Kashmir dispute.

In the letter to the UN, Pakistan denounced recent aggressive actions by India, saying the country “willfully undermine the internationally recognized disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir.”