Pakistan rejects Indian SC orders failing to recognise J&K’s disputed status: FO
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday rejected the fresh order of the Indian Supreme Court upholding its earlier ruling that had endorsed the Indian government’s unilateral decision of revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir by abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution through legislation in 2019.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch at her weekly press briefing in Islamabad said, “We reject the fresh order of the Indian Supreme Court just as we had rejected the earlier order of December 11, 2023. Two verdicts fail to recognize the internationally recognized disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir…Indian Supreme Court judgments cannot distract the international community’s attention from the gross and systemic human rights violation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.”
She said the Kashmiris had an inalienable right to self-determination as enshrined in the UN Security Council’s resolutions.
India has no right to make unilateral decisions on the status of disputed territory against the will of parties in the dispute -Kashmiris and Pakistan, she added.
