‘Delhi is sponsor, financier and abettor of terrorism’: Pakistan hits back at India

UNITED NATIONS: (HRNW) Pakistan on Friday rejected India’s claim at the United Nations (UN) that Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) was its integral part, saying the Himalayan state was an internationally recognised disputed territory.

“Jammu and Kashmir neither is an integral part of India nor is it India’s internal matter,” Pakistani delegate Saima Saleem said in response to an Indian delegate’s assertion that by raising the Kashmir dispute in his speech to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Prime Minister Imran Khan had brought in ‘matters internal to my country.’

Reacting to the Indian claim, Saleem, a counsellor at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, added, “India remains in occupation of an internationally recognized, disputed territory whose final disposition needs to be decided in accordance with the democratic principle of a free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices, as provided for under numerous resolutions of the UN Security Council (UNSC).”