Minister: (Pakistan formally calls for urgent meeting of UNSC on grim situation in Occupied Kashmir).

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he has written a letter to UN Security Council asking it to convene a special meeting to discuss the illegal steps of India to change the status quo in Kashmir.

In a video message, he said the letter has been forwarded by Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr. Maleeha Lodhi. He said Pakistan deems that Indian actions have jeopardized the regional as well as global peace. He said it is India's wrong thinking that it can crush the right to self-determination of Kashmiris.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi said if seven hundred thousand Indian troops deployed in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir for decades could not defeat the freedom struggle of Kashmiris, the reinforcement of one hundred and eighty thousand troops will also fail.

He said he also mentioned in the letter that India is planning a new massacre of Kashmiris in the held territory and if New Delhi thinks Pakistan and Kashmir people will bear it silently, it will be a grave mistake.

He expressed concern that India might stage another Pulwama like incident in order to divert international attention from the situation of Occupied Kashmir. He said Pakistan will go to any extent for defence of motherland should...