India's acts raising threat of military conflict, says AJK president.

ISLAMABAD -- President of Azad and Jammu Kashmir (AJK) Sardar Masood Khan on Tuesday warned that India's aggressive posturing against Pakistan has raised the threat of a military conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

'India is threatening Pakistan with war. It has whipped up war psychosis and has threatened to use nuclear weapon,' Mr Khan said at a seminar on 'The Kashmir Conflict and South Asian Security', which was jointly organised by Islamabad Policy Institute and Quaid-i-Azam University's Department of Defence and Strategic Studies (DSS).

He was referring to the statements by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and said that Indian actions were imperilling security in the region.

The event was organised to discuss the current security environment and frame policy recommendations.

Mr Khan's remarks came in the backdrop of heightened tensions between Pakistan and India, which entered a new phase after held Kashmir's annexation by Delhi in August. Besides, hostile statements against Pakistan, India has intensified ceasefire violations targeting civilian population living close to LoC.

The AJK president explained that this hostility, which he called 'madness', was being 'driven by fascist agenda of BJP and other violent extremist groups'. In...