Day after UNSC censures JeM, Pakistan writes to body, accuses India of threatening regional security
FirstpostPakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written a letter to the United Nations Security Council accusing India of threatening regional security, a day after the powerful UN body named Pakistan-based JeM in a statement condemning the Pulwama attack. Islamabad: Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written a letter to the United Nations Security Council accusing India of threatening regional security, the Foreign Office said on Friday, a day after the powerful UN body named Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed in a statement condemning the “heinous” Pulwama attack perpetrated by the terror outfit in Jammu and Kashmir. On Thursday, in a strong show of international support for India, the UNSC comprising 15 nations, including Pakistan’s key ally China, named JeM while condemning in the “strongest terms” the “heinous and cowardly” terror attack in Pulwama and stressed on the need to hold organisers and financiers of such “reprehensible acts” accountable and bring them to justice. Qureshi said India “must refrain from escalating the situation and enter into dialogue with Pakistan” to ensure continued peace and stability in South Asia.