ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Foreign Office has said that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute, and it never was and never will be the so-called ‘integral part’ of India.
Responding to media queries on the remarks made by the Spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) regarding the references to Jammu and Kashmir in the Joint Press Release issued on the occasion of the 3rd Session of Strategic Dialogue between the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and China, the Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that we reject the gratuitous, unwarranted and baseless remarks made by the Spokesperson of the Indian MEA.
“India has no locus standi on the matter whatsoever,” he said.
The Spokesperson said that parts of the State of Jammu and Kashmir are under illegal Indian occupation. He said that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute is the oldest item on the agenda of the UN Security Council (UNSC), pending resolution due to Indian intransigence.
Regurgitation of false and fabricated claims by India does not change the reality that it is India which is in illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir for more than seven decades, the Spokesperson added.
Chaudhri said that numerous UN Security Council resolutions have established that the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite held under the UN auspices.
The Foreign Office Spokesperson said that India’s illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019, seeking to alter the internationally recognized disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir and to change the demographic structure of the occupied territory, are in clear violation of the UN Charter, relevant UNSC resolutions, and international law.
The Spokesperson reiterated that India must immediately end its illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir, stop its egregious violations of human rights in IIOJK, and take steps for full implementation of the relevant UNSC resolutions on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
