ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has categorically rejected the 'unwarranted and irresponsible' remarks made by India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) regarding elections in Gilgit-Baltistan.
"India has no locus standi on the issue - legal, moral or historical. The regurgitation of false and fabricated claims by India can neither change the facts nor divert attention from India's illegal actions and perpetration of the worst human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK)," said Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry.
For over 72 years, he pointed out that India had been in illegal and inhuman occupation of the IIOJK.
However, despite the incessant brutalisation of the Kashmiri people at the hands of Indian occupation forces, the indigenous Kashmiri resistance movement had only become stronger, he added.
"Pakistan calls upon India to immediately end its illegal and forcible occupation of parts of Jammu & Kashmir and comply with its international obligations by allowing the Kashmiris to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations as enshrined in the relevant UNSC resolutions," the spokesperson added.
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