PAKISTAN said on Tuesday (20) it would take its dispute with India over Kashmir to the International Court of Justice after New Delhi revoked the special status of Kashmir earlier this month.
Islamabad reacted with fury to that decision, cutting trade and transport links and expelling India's ambassador.
"We have decided to take the Kashmir case to the International Court of Justice," Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, told ARY News TV on Tuesday.
"The decision was taken after considering all legal aspects."
The case would centre on alleged human rights violations by India in Muslim-majority Kashmir, Qureshi said.
A decision by the court would advisory only. However, if both countries agreed before-hand, the ruling would become binding.
A spokesman for India's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
India denies committing human rights violations in Kashmir.
Army personnel stand amid the rubble following an explosion inside the police headquarters at Kohat in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on September 18, 2026. An explosion at a historic police headquarters in northern Pakistan on September 18 killed at least eight people and wounded 35 more, officials said, with the country's president swiftly blaming a militant group. Getty Images
Mourners read the holy Quran while sitting around the grave of a paramilitary personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) who was killed during the Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes, in Kohat on October 17, 2025. A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on October 16, officials on both sides said, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in cross-border clashes.Getty Images
