Pakistan: UN must stop Indian violence in Kashmir

Pakistan has called on the permanent members of the UN Security Council to press India to halt more than two months of violence in Kashmir

The appeal comes a day after suspected rebels attacked an Indian army base in Kashmir, killing 17 soldiers.
The Foreign Office said Monday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has sent letters to the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France asking them to intervene. Sharif says the violence is a threat to international peace and security.
The disputed Himalayan territory is split between Indian and Pakistani areas of control. Both nuclear-armed states claim Kashmir in its entirety.
The killing of a rebel commander in July sparked a wave of unrest, with near-daily clashes between Indian forces and protesters. More than 80 people have been killed.
Meanwhile, India's prime minister on Monday summoned top security advisers to thrash out a response to a deadly raid on a Kashmir army base blamed on militants from Pakistan, amid calls for tough action against the nuclear-armed nation.
Narendra Modi has vowed to punish those behind the attack in which gunmen hurling grenades stormed a base, killing 17 soldiers in the worst such attack in over a decade. An 18th soldier died in hospital on Monday.
The Hindu nationalist prime minister promised during his election campaign to take a hard line over Kashmir and has faced calls from army veterans and even some in his own party for military action against Pakistan.
On Monday he summoned his national security advisers and military leaders to formulate a response, which media reports said could include airstrikes on training camps on the Pakistan side of the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir.
But security experts say India lacks the military capabilities to take on its neighbour in the divided Himalayan region, already tense after weeks of violent clashes between police and demonstrators protesting at Indian rule.
"It's not like the US conducting airstrikes in Syria to tackle Daesh that's hundreds of miles away from home ground, Pakistan is next door," said Ajai Sahni, executive director at the Institute of Conflict Management think-tank in Delhi.
"India knows it can't sustain a 15-day war against Pakistan and Pakistan knows it can't sustain a similar war against India."

Source: Arab News