FILE PHOTO: Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at a news conference following a meeting with Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Moe Doiron

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he had expressed concern to his Indian counterpart about the situation in the disputed Kashmir region.

“I have to spoken to the Indian Foreign Minister,” Raab said on Wednesday. “We’ve expressed some of our concerns around the situation and called for calm, but also had a clear readout of the situation from the perspective of the Indian government.”

Pakistan said it would downgrade diplomatic relations and suspend bilateral trade with arch-rival India after New Delhi stripped its portion of the contested Kashmir region of special status.