Kashmir crisis .. Pakistan offers the political option and India is attacking its international movements

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military and diplomatic options to deal with its standoff with India over the Kashmir situation are ahead of any military option, a military spokesman said.

On the withdrawal of about two hundred thousand Pakistani troops from the border with Afghanistan to meet the Indian challenge on the eastern border, Ghafoor said Pakistan would do its best.

He said Indian troops were shelling Kashmiri villages near the armistice line because they felt they were hated and were looking to the Pakistani army for protection.

Friday demonstrations
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on his countrymen to demonstrate massively across the country on Friday, condemning the conditions in the Indian-administered Kashmir region, the focus of the two countries' differences.

"I hope that all Pakistanis will go out (Friday) between 12:00 and 12:30 to show their solidarity with the Kashmiri people," he wrote on Twitter.

"We must send a strong message to the Kashmiri people to say that our nation stands firmly next to them."

India has reacted angrily to Khan's call to demonstrate. "We strongly condemn the irresponsible statements of Pakistani officials on domestic issues concerning India," said Foreign Office spokesman Ravish Qamar.

Khan's announcement came after the Pakistani army on Thursday morning unveiled a missile test capable of carrying "different types of warheads."

International escalation
For his part, attacked Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh - Thursday - Pakistan's international actions against New Delhi, against the backdrop of the abolition of the special status of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir.

Singh said in his speech that he respected the existence of Pakistan but did not have the right to appear before a court on Jammu and Kashmir.

Instead, he said, Islamabad should focus on putting human rights in its part of Kashmir.

"India wants to have good neighborly relations with Pakistan, but first it has to stop exporting terrorism to India. We cannot talk to Pakistan when it continues to try to destabilize India."

Observers believe that the Indian steps would allow Indians from other states to own property in the state, and thus change the demographics of the region, to make it not a Muslim majority.

The level of tension between the two countries remains high since New Delhi decided earlier this month to abolish Article 370 of the Constitution, which gives Kashmir special status.

The area has been under curfew for four weeks, communications have been cut and thousands of people arrested, according to local sources.