Pakistan wants UN Security Council meeting amid escalating conflict with India.

Pakistan wants UN Security Council meeting amid escalating conflict with India.

International news Desk

According to global Times news agency Europe,Pakistan is asking for a meeting of the UN Security Council due to rising tensions with India, a Security Council source told The global Times Europe media.Pakistan is demanding a Security Council meeting. The date has not yet been set,” the source said.Last week a terrorist attack killed at least 26 people in a Himalayan tourist destination in the Pahalgam area of the Kashmir valley.The Muslim-majority region is claimed by both India and Pakistan, and has been the site of several wars, an insurgency and diplomatic standoffs.India has accused Pakistan’s Interagency Intelligence Service of involvement in the attack, carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba group (banned in Russia).Pakistan denies this. Islamabad has said it has intelligence that India intends to launch military action and retaliated by halting all border trade, closing its airspace to Indian carriers and expelling Indian diplomats.