Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday categorically rejected the grant of domicile certificates of Jammu and Kashmir by the Indian authorities to Indian nationals.
The Pak Foreign Office spokesperson was quoted as saying in a statement that, “The certificates issued to non-Kashmiris including, among others, the Indian government officials under ‘Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure), 2020’ are illegal, void and in complete violation of the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions, and International law including the 4th Geneva Convention.”
Pakistan’s spokesperson, Aisha Farooqui said the latest action was a vindication of Pakistan’s consistent stance that the major intention behind the Indian government’s illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019 was to change the demographic structure of J&K and turn Kashmiris into a minority in their own land.
“This has long been part of the RSS-BJP’s ‘Hindutva’ agenda. By changing the demographic structure of J&K, the Indian Government intends to undermine the exercise by the Kashmiri people of their right through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nation as per the relevant UNSC Resolutions,” Pakistan’s spokesperson remarked.
She said, “through these reprehensible actions, along with continuing restrictions, excruciating military crackdown, extra-judicial killings, arbitrary detentions and incarcerations, and unabated grave human rights violations.”
“India should know that its suppression has not been able to break the will of the Kashmiri people in the past and it will not succeed in doing so in the future.”
The Pak FO also urged the United Nations and the international community to intervene to stop India from changing the demographic structure of the region by settling people from India in a territory and the status of which remains disputed.
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