ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan government said on Monday it will send specialenvoys to selected world capitals to highlight the “deterioratingsituation” in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir following a sudden spike inviolence that resulted in 20 deaths.

Following a special meeting of the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister ShahidKhaqan Abbasi to review the situation in Kashmir, an official statementsaid the government had condemned what it described as the “brutal andindiscriminate” use of force by the Indian forces.

The cabinet decided to send “special envoys of the Prime Minister”,including the “president” of Azad Kashmir, to selected world capitals to“highlight the deteriorating situation” in Kashmir.