In the week after India announced the revocation, members of the Kashmiri Muslim community, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, held a number of protest demonstrations in the United States in the cities of Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle against India's removal of autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir.[295] Protesters also gathered outside the White House on 10 August 2019 and urged Washington to help the people of Kashmir.[295] Pakistan's ambassador Asad Majeed Khan held community events asking the United States to "inject some more sanity on the Indian side".