India on Sunday strongly rejected Pakistan’s move to provide provisional-provincial popularity to Gilgit-Baltistan and stated that Islamabad has no proper to adjust the popularity of territories it has occupied “illegally and forcibly”.
“India firmly rejects strive with the aid of using Pakistan to convey fabric adjustments to part of Indian territory below its unlawful and forcible occupation,” ministry of outside affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava stated throughout a media briefing.
The MEA reiterated that the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh, which include Gilgit-Baltistan, are an “integral” a part of India with the aid of using distinctive feature of the legal, entire and irrevocable accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India in 1947.
“The authorities of Pakistan has no locus standi on territories illegally and forcibly occupied with the aid of using it,” Srivastava stated.
The ministry stated that such attempts, which can be meant to camouflage Pakistan’s unlawful occupation, can not cover the grave human rights violations and denial of freedom for over 7 a long time to human beings living in those territories.
India’s corporation rebuke got here hours after it become stated that the Imran Khan authorities has granted provisional-provincial popularity to Gilgit-Baltistan.
“One of the motives for me coming to Gilgit-Baltistan is to announce that we’ve got determined to provide Gilgit-Baltistan the provisional provincial popularity,” Khan reportedly stated throughout his go to to Gilgit-Baltistan.
The Imran Khan authorities has been going through great protests over the difficulty of Gilgit Baltistan.
Political activists from Gilgit-Baltistan have stated they’ll sacrifice themselves however will now no longer allow Pakistan adjust the popularity of the location.
People from Gilgit-Baltistan, who’ve been dwelling in different Pakistani towns, have additionally taken to the streets towards Islamabad’s arbitrary decision. The human beings accuse Pakistan of systematically exploiting the location of its assets and sharing no dividends with them.
Strategically positioned Gilgit-Baltistan, with an anticipated populace of 1.2 million, borders Afghanistan and China, and is on the coronary heart of the sixty-five billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor infrastructure improvement plan.

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