ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will chair a special cabinet meeting on Friday to take stock of the situation emerging from India-held Kashmir, which has fast turned volatile over the past few days.

`PM has convened a special cabinet meeting on Friday at the Governor House, Lahore, to discuss the rapidly deteriorating situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir,` said a statement issued by the press section of the Prime Minister Office.

`The cabinet will discuss the oppressive actions of Indian security forces against innocent civilians and the overall situation in Kashmir after brutal assassination of Burhan Wani,` it added.

This will be the prime minister`s first top-level offi-cial engagement outside his Raiwind residence, where heisresting afterreturning from London.

Earlier, according to the statement, on the directives of the prime minister the Foreign Office summoned the Indian high commissioner and conveyed strong concerns of the government and people of Pakistan over rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Kashmir and increasing oppression by Indian security forces.

A detailed briefing was also given to the ambassadors of permanent members of the UN Security Council regarding atrocities of Indian security forces in Kashmir.

The prime minister will take the cabinet into confidence on these measures and chalk out a future course of action in this regard.