'The Kashmir dispute has the potential to create an Indo-Pak catastrophe.'
WASHINGTON: Masood Khan, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, has cautioned that heightened tensions between India and Pakistan over the Jammu and Kashmir dispute could lead to another catastrophe while the world community deals with crises like the Russia-Ukraine war. He stated in an interview with Newsweek that while New Delhi's action continued to cause tension between two nuclear-armed countries, the international community had shown a "dangerous indifference" to the matter. The interview was timed to coincide with the third anniversary of India's revocation of Articles 370 and 35A, which repealed the special status of the Indian-occupied portion of the disputed Kashmir region. "The United States or other permanent members of the UN Security Council have not been able to dedicate much attention to Kashmir because of many developments in the international domain, for example, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific region," Ambassad