Pakistan has announced plans to expel India's top diplomat and suspend trade with its neighbour, deepening a row between the countries over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Indian-administered Kashmir has been on lock-down since the Indian government decided on 5th of August 2019 to strip the region of its special constitutional status that let state of Kashmir to make it its own laws.

The Himalayan region of Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan, but they each control only parts of it.