MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): Pakistan has denounced the statement of the Indian External Affairs Ministry regarding Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
At a weekly press briefing today, the Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan called New Delhi’s claims of occupied Jammu and Kashmir as its union territory “null and void” under international law.
Khan reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized disputed territory whose final status is to be determined in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
Responding to a question, the FO spokesperson said Pakistan had taken note of remarks made by the Indian external affairs minister, who had levelled certain accusations against Pakistan.
The Spokesperson emphasized that rather than making baseless claims, India should vacate the territory of Jammu and Kashmir under its forcible occupation for the last seventy-seven years.
The Spokesperson said the Indian External Affairs Minister’s remarks that he did not want to spend his precious time in Pakistan are particularly ironic.
He said Pakistan also takes firm exception to the Indian leaders’ continued diatribe in the context of terrorism. India’s false narrative of victim cannot divert international attention from its own dismal human rights record and its involvement in terrorism.
