Paki Media spooked by Indian determination to take back PoK, Gilgit Baltistan and Shaksagam Valley
The Foreign Office in Pakistan seems to be alarmed by a surge in determined statements from Indian leaders asserting to take back areas of Pak Occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and even Shaksagam Valley. Pakistan rejected India’s claims knowing well that the overall area being part of erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir belongs to India.
The remarks by the Paki FO spokesperson did not mention any specific statement by an Indian leader.
However, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday stated that the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir now have started demanding to be with India. Every one is now aware of the development taking place in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, especially after removal of the temporary Article 370 from the Indian Constitution.
Earlier this month, India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar stated that India “would never accept that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is not part of India”, even the Parliament of India has passed a resolution to take back this area from possession of Pakistan.
The development also comes after Iran and Pakistan, in a joint statement, highlighted the need to resolve the long-standing issue through “dialogue and peaceful means based on the will of the people of that region and in accordance with international law”. India has already taken up the matter with Iranian authorities, enough is enough. Iran must not make any statement on any integral part of India.
Addressing a weekly press briefing in Islamabad today, Paki spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said, “We are witnessing an alarming surge in provocative statements from Indian leaders asserting unwarranted claims on AJK. Pakistan rejects these claims.
“Fuelled by hyper-nationalism, this inflammatory rhetoric poses a grave threat to regional peace and susceptibility,” she added, urging “Indian politicians to cease their reckless practice of dragging Pakistan into India’s populist public discourse for electoral motives”.
“Historical and legal facts as well as ground realities refute India’s baseless claims over AJK. Despite India’s rhetoric and assertions, Jammu and Kashmir remains an internationally recognised disputed territory,” the spokesperson asserted.
Zahra stated that the UN Security Council resolutions on the region “clearly outline that the final status of Jammu and Kashmir shall be determined by the will of the people through a free and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices”.
“India would be wise to help implement these resolutions instead of harbouring delusions of grandeur,” the FO spokesperson stressed.
India is currently in the process of conducting a mammoth election, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third term. Thereafter steps will be taken to remerge this territory, using force if necessary.
No power in this world, including UN or any other nation has the power to take away Jammu & Kashmir away from India. Pakistan should know this and should always remember that India has the option to derecognize even the Radcliffe Line drawn by some idiotic person.
