Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday urged the international powers, including the UN and the U.S., to help de-escalate tensions with India, saying they “must act” to prevent the two nuclear-armed countries from reaching a point of no return.

Mr. Khan, who is here to attend the World Economic Forum, also claimed that India might attempt to raise tensions at the border in order to divert attention from domestic protests against the new citizenship law and the Kashmir issue, according to Dawn newspaper.

“You cannot have two nuclear-armed countries even contemplating a conflict,” Mr. Khan said while speaking during an interview with the International Media Council on the sidelines of the WEF annual meeting in Davos.

For this reason the UN and the U.S. must take steps, Mr. Khan said.

Mr. Khan also demanded that UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) be allowed along the Line of Control, the paper said.

India maintains that the UNMOGIP, established in January 1949, has outlived its utility and is irrelevant after the Shimla Agreement and the consequent establishment of the LoC.

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