'Eight million people made to live in a siege, it's a slap on the face of the international community,' Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. Asad Majeed Khan told Newsweek.
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States has called on the world community to intervene against India's decision to consolidate control over its share of disputed Kashmir as residents in the valley remembered its painful division over seven decades ago.
"They have to lift their lockdown and restore the basic freedoms of the people of Kashmir," Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. Asad Majeed Khan toldA Kashmiri boy looks out from his damaged family house after cross-border shelling in Jura, a village of Neelum valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on October 21.
"There is anger across the valley and people are in a state of civil disobedience over what's happening," Khan toldFresh violence has also transpired across the border, setting the stage between what Khan noted were"two nuclear powers, two big powers." In the deadliest such incident this year, up to nine people were killed in an exchange of artillery between India and Pakistani armed forces.
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