Pakistan downgrades relations with India as Kashmir lockdown continues
2019-08-08 11:02:30 source：CBS News
August 7, 2019
New Delhi – Pakistan announced it was downgrading its diplomatic relations with India Wednesday in response to India's earlier revocation of a consitutional amendment that granted the disputed region of Kashmir special, semi-autonomous status. Muslim-majority Kashmir borders both India and Pakistan, and both countries control parts of it but claim it in full.
In a tweet, Pakistan's government announced it would also be suspending bilateral trade with India and taking the issue of Kashmir to the United Nations Security Council. Pakistan's foreign ministry said the country would be expelling the Indian envoy from Islamabad and recalling their High Commissioner from New Delhi.
India scrapped Article 370 of its constitution Monday, which gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir its own constitution and significant decision-making rights for everything apart from foreign affairs, communications, and defense. Indian parliament on Tuesday also passed a bill to split the restive state into two Union Territories, making way for the Indian central government to directly control the disputed region.
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