Pakistan says it completely rejects any attempt by India to contemplatesome G20-related event or meeting in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammuand Kashmir.
In a statement on Saturday, Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmedsaid Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized “disputed”territory between Pakistan and India and the dispute remains on the agendaof the UN Security Council for over seven decades.
He said holding of any G20 related event in the territory in utterdisregard of the disputed status of the territory, is a travesty that theinternational community cannot accept under any circumstances.
The Spokesperson said it is expected that in case of any controversialproposal from India, designed to seek legitimacy for its illegal andtyrannical occupation of the territory, the G20 members will be fullycognizant of the imperatives of law and justice and would reject itout-right.
He said Pakistan strongly urges the international community to call uponIndia to end its gross and systematic human rights violations in IIOJK,revoke its illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019 and free allpolitical prisoners including the Kashmiri leaders.
The Spokesperson reiterated Pakistan’s stance that the only way to lastingpeace in South Asia is by granting the people of Indian Illegally OccupiedJammu and Kashmir, their inalienable right to self-determination under therelevant UN Security Council resolutions.
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The Spokesperson said since India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5thAugust 2019, Indian occupation forces have killed 639 innocent Kashmiris inextra-judicial murders.
He said several reports of the United Nations have re-confirmed the ongoingIndian atrocities against the Kashmiri people.
The Spokesperson said India has been seeking to change the demographicstructure of the occupied territory in flagrant violation of relevant UNSecurity Council resolutions and international law.
