ISLAMABAD – New Delhi to position missile launchers in theIndian-controlled Kashmir along Pakistan borders.
In the letter to United Nations Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah MahmoodQureshi said he wrote that he fears India plans to launch an attack onPakistan to divert international attention from human rights violations inKashmir.
There was no immediate comment from India.
These are “Indian actions that continue to escalate tensions in an alreadytense environment in South Asia,” Qureshi said, demanding the U.N. respondto the purported moves by India.
Tensions between Pakistan and India have been heightened since Aug. 5, whenIndia changed the status of its part of Kashmir, drawing protests fromPakistan. India has since eased restrictions in Kashmir.
Pakistan’s top diplomat also claimed in the letter to the U.N. that Indiahas partially removed the fence in five areas along the so-called Line ofControl of the heavily militarized Kashmir, which is divided between thetwo nuclear rivals and claimed by both in its entirety.
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Pakistani and Indian troops often exchange fire in Kashmir, causingcivilian and troop casualties.
In the latest such incident, Pakistan’s military said the Indian armyThursday resorted to unprovoked fire in the village of Jura in Kashmir,killing two civilians and wounding two others. In a statement, it said in asubsequent exchange of fire, three Pakistani troops were wounded and anIndian post was damaged.
Pakistan and India have fought two of their three wars over control ofKashmir since they gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.They nearly went to war again in February, when a suicide bombing inIndian-run part of Kashmir killed 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers.
India at the time responded by bombing an alleged militant training campin Pakistan. Islamabad later said its forces downed two Indian air forceplanes and captured an Indian pilot, who was later released.
