Pakistan ready for plebiscite in Kashmir: PM Imran Khan.

Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired a high-level meeting where attendees included army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Special Assistant on Strategic Policy Planning Dr Moeed Waseem Yousaf, ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hamid, Foreign Secretary Sohail Mehmood and other senior officials.

The meeting was convened a day after the UN Security Council for the second time in five months discussed the IOJ and K situation. The discussions were held at the request of China, one of the five permanent members of the 15-member UN body.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Pakistan is ready for a referendum or a plebiscite in Kashmir in order to end the blockades imposed on the people of Kashmir. A day earlier before the high-level meeting, the UNSC had discussed the situation prevailing in Kashmir due to which PM Khan made the statement during an interview with Germany's DW TV.

'India, which is a nuclear-armed country of 1.3 billion people, is in the hands of extremists,' PM Khan said in the DW TV interview. 'India has been taken over by a racially extremist exclusive ideology, which is called Hindutva,' he added.

'The Hindutva ideology draws its strength from RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh],' PM Khan said. 'I'm afraid this is going to pose a threat not just to...