ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has categorically rejected India’s baseless remarks regarding the upcoming elections in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, describing them as part of a familiar, carefully choreographed attempt to conflate fact with fiction.
In a statement on Friday, the Foreign Office accused India of being a leading global promoter of false narratives and tendentious propaganda.
“We unequivocally reject this latest Indian rhetoric with the contempt it deserves,” it said.
Pakistan has reiterated that India continues to occupy the internationally recognised disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Pakistan Rejects India’s Remarks on Gilgit-Baltistan Elections, Reaffirms Position on Jammu and Kashmir
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The Jammu and Kashmir dispute, which remains the longest unresolved item on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council, originated from India’s forcible and unlawful occupation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, the statement added.
“The only just and durable settlement of the dispute lies in the faithful implementation of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, which guarantee the Kashmiri people their inalienable right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices,” it said.
It said that India’s unfounded assertions regarding Gilgit-Baltistan cannot divert attention from the grave and systematic human rights violations being perpetrated by Indian occupation forces in IIOJK.
“The continued impunity enjoyed by Indian forces under draconian laws imposed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) is another dimension of the state terrorism being perpetrated by India against unarmed Kashmiris,” it said.
Pakistan called upon India to vacate all occupied territories, reverse all illegal and unilateral actions taken in IIOJK, particularly since 5 August 2019, repeal all draconian laws, and allow access to neutral observers, international human rights and humanitarian organisations, and the international media to ascertain the situation on the ground.
“India must also enable the Kashmiri people to exercise their right to self-determination in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions,” the statement concluded.
