ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Tuesday rejected the Indian Prime Minister Modi’sremarks about Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir during a publicrally in Gujarat.
The Foreign Office, in a statement issued here, said that the Indian PrimeMinister’s farcical contention that he has, somehow, “resolved the Kashmirissue”, is not only false and misleading but also reflects how obliviousthe Indian leadership has become of the ground realities in IIOJK.
It said Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognised dispute, theresolution of which has been on the agenda of the United Nations since1948. Despite clear UN resolutions that prescribe a free and impartialplebiscite for the final disposition of the dispute, India has not onlyillegally occupied the territory but is also guilty of egregious humanrights violations employing over 900,000 brutal occupation force.
The foreign office said the fact remains that the people of IIOJK continueto brave India’s reprehensible occupation which it seeks to perpetuatethrough malicious demographic changes and strong-arm tactics. The craftilystaged visits of the Indian leadership to the occupied territory andchoreographed launches of so-called development projects in a bid to createa façade of ‘normalcy’ will neither dampen the spirit of the Kashmirisstruggling to break free from the illegal Indian occupation nor would itdeceive the world into believing India’s deception.
The statement said instead of making delusional statements about havingresolved the dispute unilaterally, the Indian leadership must deliver ontheir commitments to the Kashmiris and to the world and ensure that thepeople of Kashmir are accorded their inalienable right toself-determination.
The foreign office further said that Pakistan has consistently called uponthe international community to assume its role and responsibility withregards to IIOJK and the ongoing Indian atrocities in the occupiedterritory. India must also be held responsible for its nefarious scheme ofaltering the demography of IIOJK, as well as for its brutal repression ofthe innocent Kashmiris.
It said Pakistan reiterates its call on human rights and humanitarianorganizations to condemn India’s state-terrorism in IIOJK and demand animmediate reversal of the Indian government’s illegal and unilateralactions of 5 August 2019.