Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 4: Dogra Sadar Sabha (DSS) today slammed Imran Khan Govt for giving provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan saying the territory is India’s integral part and Islamabad has no locus standi.
In a press statement issued here DSS president Th Gulchain Singh Charak said that rather than changing the status of the illegally occupied territory, Pakistan should vacate it. Lodging a strong protest at Pakistan’s move, Charak said, “The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the area of so-called “Gilgit-Baltistan,” are an integral part of India by virtue of the legal, complete and irrevocable accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India in 1947. “Pakistan can’t make material changes to the Indian Territory, added Charak.
He further added, “Such attempts by Pakistan, intended to camouflage its illegal occupation, cannot hide the grave human rights violations, exploitation, and denial of freedom for over seven decades to people residing in these Pakistan occupied territories.”
“Instead of seeking to alter the status of these Indian territories, we call upon Pakistan to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation,” concluded Charak.
He maintained that we completely reject such actions and continued attempts to bring material changes in Pakistan occupied areas of the Indian territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Instead, Pakistan should immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation, he asserted.
He further conveyed that such actions can neither hide the illegal occupation of parts of Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh by Pakistan nor the grave human rights violations, exploitation and denial of freedom to the people residing in Pakistan occupied territories for the past seven decades. He informed that India’s position in the matter is reacted in the resolution passed by the Parliament in 1994 by consensus.
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