{"id":6087,"date":"2019-08-07T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2019-08-07T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:58:15","slug":"pakistan-downgrades-diplomatic-ties-with-india-over-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-downgrades-diplomatic-ties-with-india-over-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan downgrades diplomatic ties with India over Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan downgrade diplomatic ties and suspend trade with India over Kashmir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan downgraded diplomatic relations and suspended bilateral commerce with India after New Delhi revoked special status of autonomy for the disputed Muslim-majority state of Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken at the top security body\u2019s meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Imran Khan, was held in the aftermath of India&#8217;s &#8220;unilateral and illegal actions&#8221; through which it scrapped the special status for occupied Kashmir by revoking Article 370. The situation inside occupied Jammu and Kashmir and along the Line of Control was also discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also decided to review Pakistan&#8217;s bilateral arrangements with India, take the matter of revocation of Kashmir&#8217;s special status to the United Nations, including its Security Council, and observe the upcoming Independence Day on August 14 &#8220;in solidarity with brave Kashmiris and their just struggle for their right of self-determination&#8221;. August 15, the Indian independence day, will be observed as &#8220;Black Day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Pakistan&#8217;s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Islamabad will also expel India&#8217;s\u00a0Indian Ambassador Ajay Bisaria. Moin-ul-Haq, Pakistan&#8217;s newly appointed ambassador to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/india.html\">India<\/a>, had yet to take up his post but will now not move to New Delhi, Qureshi added in televised comments.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from India&#8217;s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Pakistan&#8217;s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said the country&#8217;s military firmly stands by the people of Kashmir and will &#8220;go to any extent to fulfil our obligations in this regard&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Key decisions taken by Pakistan on August 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Downgrading of diplomatic relations<\/li>\n<li>Suspension of bilateral trade<\/li>\n<li>Review of bilateral arrangements<\/li>\n<li>Matter to be taken to United Nations<\/li>\n<li>August 14 to be observed in solidarity with Kashmiris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan downgrade diplomatic ties and suspend trade with India over Kashmir Pakistan downgraded diplomatic relations and suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[137,70,138,8,113],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-asia","tag-india","tag-kashmir","tag-pakistan","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Imran-Khan.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}