Urges India to vacate occupied territories and reverse unilateral actions in IIOJK
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Photo: File
Pakistan on Friday categorically rejected India’s baseless remarks on the upcoming elections in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), describing the outlandish claims as part of New Delhi’s “carefully choreographed attempt to conflate fact with fiction”.
The statement came after India, in a statement issued by its foreign ministry earlier in the day, objected to the UK election, asserting that “the entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the so-called ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’, are integral and inalienable parts of India”.
General elections in GB are scheduled to be held on June 7 after being postponed for four months due to harsh winter conditions. Political parties, including the PPP and PML-N, had intensified their campaigns across the region, holding rallies and corner meetings ahead of the polling booths as the election campaign ended at midnight on Friday.
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Pakistan rejects India’s remarks on Gilgit-Baltistan elections, reaffirms its stance on Jammu and Kashmir
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“We unequivocally reject this latest Indian rhetoric with the contempt it deserves,” the State Department said in a statement, accusing India of being a global leader in spreading false narratives and biased 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 forcible and illegal occupation of the territory in 1947.
“The only just and durable solution to the dispute lies in the faithful implementation of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions guaranteeing the Kashmiri people their inalienable right to self-determination through a free and impartial referendum under UN auspices,” it added.
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The Ministry of External Affairs further said that India’s allegations regarding GB could not divert attention 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 was another dimension of what it called 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 5 August 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 calling for the Kashmiri Security Council itself to exercise its right to exercise its right in accordance with the UN. decisions.
