Talks with India only after it 'reverses' decision on Kashmir: Imran

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that talks with India can happen only if New Delhi "reverses" its decision on revoking Jammu and Kashmir's special status, end the restrictions and withdraws its troops to the barracks.

In an opinion piece in The New York Times on Thursday, Khan again warns that if the world does nothing to stop India's decision on Kashmir, the two nuclear-armed countries will get ever closer to a "direct military confrontation."

Tensions between India and Pakistan spiked after India abrogated provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution to revoke Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcated it into two Union Territories.

Reacting to India's decision, Pakistan expelled the Indian High Commissioner after it downgraded the diplomatic ties with New Delhi.

"On Kashmir, the dialogue must include all stakeholders, especially the Kashmiris," Khan says.

"But dialogue can start only when India reverses its illegal annexation of Kashmir, ends the curfew and ...