ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday expressed apprehension that Pulwama-like attacks can follow the revocation of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir, which could trigger a conventional war between Pakistan and India. Imran Khan was speaking at a joint session convened to discuss the Kashmir issue. Pakistan has also announced that it has expelled Indian High Commissioner as a part of cutting off the diplomatic ties between the two nations.

"This will be a war that no one will win and the implications will be global," he warned a day after the Indian government revoked Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir. India maintains that Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part and it includes Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He also explained how the war-like scenario could erupt in the middle of the current tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. He said Kashmiris would protest and India would launch a crackdown on them. Khan said with this approach, "attacks like Pulwama are bound to happen again. I can already predict this will happen. They will attempt to place the blame on us again. They may strike us again, and we will strike back." "What will happen then?... who will win that war? No one will win it and it will have grievous consequences for the entire world. This is not nuclear blackmail," Khan told the lawmakers.

Meanwhile, Pakistan's Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry urged that the country should end all diplomatic ties with India as a protest against the Kashmir issue. According to him, there is no point in having an Indian Ambassador in Pakistan as there is no diplomacy between the two nations. He added that while the Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria is a good person, the country that he represents has a "fascist regime." The minister even went on to say that Pakistan should be ready for war as the Kashmir issue is a matter of honour for the country.