Geneva: Pakistan's foreign minister warned on Wednesday that the situation in India's Kashmir risked a "accidental war" and urged UN leaders Michelle Bachelet to visit the troubled  region.

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said he believed that both Pakistan and India "understood the consequences of a conflict," but with tensions rising since New Delhi revoked Kashmir's autonomy last month, he warned that "you can't rule out an accidental war."

Qureshi, who appealed to the Human Rights Council on Tuesday to launch an international investigation into the Indian Kashmir situation, told reporters that he had spoken to Bachelet and invited her to visit the region's Indian and Pakistani parts. "She should visit both places and report as objectively as she can to let the world know what the real situation is," he said.