KARACHI: Chaudhri Zafrullah Khan declared on Monday [May 14] that if Bharat kept on saying no to every proposal to break the Kashmir stalemate, the least that the Security Council will have to do is to “pronounce authoritatively on the differences”. The Foreign Minister addressing a press conference in Karachi charged that Bharat ... had repudiated the March 30 Resolution of the Security Council on Kashmir.

Bharat’s insistence to go ahead with the “constituent assembly” in Kashmir, he said was “a clear flouting of the Resolution and a direct challenge to the Security Council”. The “obvious thing” for the Security Council to do would be to “ask Bharat to stop” the convening of the “constituent assembly”, he declared. — Staff correspondent

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in New York,] the 12-nation United Nations San­c­tions Committee today [May 14] approved an embargo on strategic war materials to Com­munist China and North Korea. Only Egypt abstained. Voting in favour of the embargo were Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, the Philippines, Turkey, Britain, the United States and Venezuela.

Published in Dawn, May 15th, 2026