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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has written a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) president, drawing his attention to what he called a "deteriorating security situation" in the region resulting from Indian rhetoric in the wake of the Pulwama attack, it emerged on Friday.
In the letter, seen by Dawn.com, he also stressed the need for the international community to step in and "dissuade India from its current war-mongering".
Over 40 Indian paramilitary troops were killed in last week's attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir which has been claimed by the Jaish-e-Mohammad, a proscribed organisation. India has alleged that those who planned the attacks had links with the Pakistani state — a charge that Pakistan has vigorously denied.
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Saying he was writing the letter "with a sense of urgency", Qureshi informed the UNSC president, Anatolio Ndong Mba of Equatorial Guinea, about Indian belligerence and "threats of use of force against Pakistan" following the Pulwama attack, saying the situation poses a threat to international peace.
Within moments of the Pulwama attack, Qureshi wrote, India started accusing and threatening Pakistan without holding any investigation or coming up with evidence. New Delhi had based all of its allegations on a social media video "of completely suspect content", he added.
Citing the Indian prime minister's statements in which he spoke of a "befitting response", the foreign minister said New Delhi had deliberately ratcheted up hostile rhetoric against Pakistan owing to domestic political reasons.
He said additionally, members of the Indian government are also threatening to "use water as a weapon", thus imperilling long-standing legal arrangements agreed between the two countries under the Indus Waters Treaty.