Urges India to leave the occupied territories and reverse its unilateral actions in the IIOJK
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Photo: File
Pakistan on Friday categorically rejected India’s baseless remarks regarding the upcoming elections in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), describing the wild claims as part of New Delhi’s “carefully choreographed attempt to confuse fact with fiction”.
The statement comes after India, in a statement issued earlier today by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, objected to the elections in Britain, saying that “the entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the so-called ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’, are an integral and inalienable part of India.”
Britain’s general election is set to take place on June 7 after being postponed for four months due to harsh winter conditions. Political parties, including the PPP and PML-N, intensified their campaigns across the region, holding rallies and corner meetings ahead of the elections, as election campaigning ended at midnight on Friday.
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Pakistan rejects India’s remarks on Gilgit-Baltistan elections, reaffirms stance on Jammu and Kashmir
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“We unequivocally reject this latest Indian rhetoric with the contempt it deserves,” the foreign ministry said in a statement, accusing India of being a global leader in spreading false narratives and tendentious propaganda.
Reiterating Pakistan’s position on Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the FO said the Kashmir dispute remained the longest unresolved item on the UN Security Council’s agenda, stemming from India’s forced and illegal occupation of the territory in 1947.
“The only just and lasting resolution of the dispute lies in the faithful implementation of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, which guarantee to the Kashmiri people their inalienable right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the UN,” the statement added.
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The Foreign Ministry further said India’s claims about Britain cannot distract from what it described as serious and systematic human rights violations in the IIOJK. “The continued impunity enjoyed by Indian forces under draconian laws in the occupied territory is another dimension of what they call state terrorism against unarmed Kashmiris,” the statement said.
Pakistan called on India to vacate all occupied territories, reverse all illegal and unilateral actions taken in the IIOJK, especially since August 5, 2019, repeal all draconian laws and allow access to neutral observers, international human rights and humanitarian organizations and international media to assess the situation on the ground, while urging that the Kashmiri people be allowed to exercise their right to self-determination in accordance with relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
