The Foreign Office issued a statement stating India's revocation was an illegal "unilateral step".[164] Pakistan's army chief said that the Pakistan Army would "go to any extent" to support the people of Kashmir.[165] On 7 August, an emergency joint parliamentary sitting passed a resolution to condemn India's move.[166][167] A meeting of the National Security Committee decided to downgrade Pakistan's diplomatic relations with India.[168] The Samjhauta Express train service[169] and the Thar Express were suspended.[170] All cultural exchanges with India were suspended, including banning the screening of Indian films and dramas inside Pakistan.[171] On 9 August 2019, Pakistan formally suspended most of its trade relations with India.[172][173][174] On 11 August 2019, prime minister Imran Khan compared the Indian government to "Nazis", warning that global inaction over Kashmir would be same as "appeasing Hitler".[175][176][177] He accused that India was attempting to change the demography of the Muslim majority Kashmir through ethnic cleansing.[175][176][177] Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi issued a statement on Tuesday 13 August 2019 that he had written a letter to the president of the United Nations Security Council with a request to convene an emergency meeting of the council to discuss India's "illegal actions that violate UN resolutions on Kashmir".[178] The foreign minister also called for circulation of the letter among members of the Security Council.[178] On 20 August 2019, Pakistan announced that it will take the dispute to the International Court of Justice, adding that its case would centre on alleged human rights violations by India.[179]