[DAWN] Pakistain "categorically rejected" on Sunday Indian government's attempts to "portray normality in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir
.jpg "Kashmir") ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
A blurb issued by the Foreign Office today said that despite the Indian government's claims, Indian Kashmire was still under a lockdown while Kashmiri leaders remained under house arrest.
"Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir continues to be the largest prison in the world with the heaviest deployment of Indian occupation forces since the coercive, unilateral and illegal Indian actions of August 5, 2019 aimed at altering the internationally recognised disputed status of IOJ&K and changing its demographic structure to preempt the results of a UN plebiscite," the blurb read.
The Foreign Office also termed Indian reports that portrayed two farmers, who had inadvertently crossed the border in August, as holy warriors as a "farcical attempt".
"This was despite the fact that the incident was discussed during the weekly military hotline contact between both sides on August 27, 2019 when Indian authorities acknowledged that they were inadvertent crossers and informed Pakistain that routine formalities are taking place after which they will be returned."
On August 21, two farmers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, identified as Muhammad Nazeem, 21, and 30-year-old Khalil Ahmed, had unintentionally crossed the Line of Control near Hajipir while they were out for cutting grass.
Last month, Indian External Affairs Ministry front man Raveesh Kumar had claimed that Pakistain was trying to create "an alarmist situation" after Indian media, citing unidentified Indian intelligence sources, said that Pakistain-trained commandos have allegedly entered Indian waters to attack port facilities in western Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
state. Pakistain Army spokesperson Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor had rubbished the claims.
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