TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that talks with India can happen only if New Delhi ‘reverses’ its decision on revoking Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, end the restrictions and withdraws its troops to the barracks.
On Thursday, Khan again warns that if the world does nothing to stop India’s decision on Kashmir, the two nuclear-armed countries will get ever closer to a ‘direct military confrontation’.
Tensions between India and Pakistan spiked after India abrogated provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and bifurcated it into two Union Territories.
‘On Kashmir, the dialogue must include all stakeholders, especially the Kashmiris,’ Khan says. ‘But dialogue can start only when India reverses its illegal annexation of Kashmir, ends the curfew and lockdown, and withdraws its troops to the barracks,’ he says.