Islamabad : Pakistan Foreign Office on Friday rejected Indian Prime Minister , Narindra Modi ‘s claims regarding development in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
India media reported that Indian Prime minister , Narindra Modi, in his address in Jammu Kashmir said Pakistan attacked humanity and Kashmir identity in Pahalgm attack. He kept on attacking Pakistani leadership in his address in Indian Occupied Kashmir . He claimed in his address that his Pakistani counterpart , Shahbaz Sharif was enemy to the Poor’s bread and butter.
In a terror attacked in Pahalgm on April 22 this year that killed 26 tourists.
India had made these Pahalgm attacks a basis for attacking Pakistan on May 6. This had got unprecedented reaction from Pakistan and as a result Pakistan downed six Indian fighter jets including three Rafels . Pakistan also destroyed Indian military assets of worth billions of dollars. Finally In India had to rush to US administration to secure a ceasefire.
Responding to the Indian premier’s remarks, the foreign office said: Pakistan firmly rejects the baseless and
misleading remarks made by the prime minister of India regarding the situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
It noted that such statements represented a deliberate attempt to deflect international attention from the grave and persistent human rights violations being committed in a territory under foreign occupation.
The Foreign Office said Pakistan was deeply dismayed that the Indian prime minister has once again chosen to accuse Pakistan of involvement in the Pahalgam attack, without presenting a single piece of credible evidence,” FO said in its statement.
It says Jammu and Kashmir remains an internationally recognised disputed territory, the final status of which is to be determined in accordance with the relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions and the will of the Kashmiri people,” it said, adding that no amount of rhetoric could change the legal and historical reality.
The Foreign Office in it’s statement said Indian Prime minister ‘s claims of development in IOJK ring hollow against the backdrop of an unprecedented military presence, suppression of fundamental freedoms, arbitrary arrests, and a concerted effort to alter the region’s demography in violation of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention,.
FO called upon the international community, including the UN and human rights organisations, to hold India accountable for its oppression and to ensure that the “Kashmiri people are allowed to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination, as enshrined in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.”
It said Pakistan remains steadfast in its principled support for the people of Jammu and Kashmir in their just struggle for their rights .
