Pakistan''s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written another letter to the UN, emphasising that the onus to create a "conducive environment" for engagement and result-oriented talks remains on India and New Delhi must reverse its actions in Jammu and Kashmir taken on or after August 5, 2019.
Qureshi addressed the letter to the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary General on the completion of two years after India abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution.
India''s Parliament abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 on August 5, 2019 and bifurcated it into two Union territories. Pakistan downgraded ties with India and suspended trade after the Indian government revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
India has maintained that the issue related to Article 370 of the Indian Constitution was entirely an internal matter of the country. Foreign Minister Qureshi, in his letter, has emphasised that the “onus remains on India to create a conducive environment for engagement and result-oriented dialogue," Pakistan''s Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement.
"To create such an environment, India must reverse all unilateral and illegal measures imposed in Jammu and Kashmir, including those initiated on and after 5 August 2019, rescind the demographic changes initiated in Jammu and Kashmir," the FO said.