Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday announced that he has tasked 22 parliamentarians with raking up the Kashmir issue+ in various international forums. India is trying to create pressure on Pakistan on incitement of violence and unrest in Kashmir.

“I have decided to send these parliamentarians for fighting the Kashmir cause in different parts of the world. These special envoys have strength of the people of Pakistan, prayers from the Kashmiri people across the Line of Control, mandate of the Parliament and support from the government”, Pakistani news outlets reported the country’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as saying.

India has taken an aggressive line against Pakistan in recent weeks, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling Islamabad that he would be forced to raise international attention to human rights abuses in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province if Islamabad continued to incite violence and terrorism in Kashmir.

The unrest was triggered by the killing of Burhan Wani, a terrorist of the Pakistan-backed Hizbul Mujahideen.