Pakistan has categorically rejected “unwarranted and irresponsible remarks” made by India’s Ministry of External Affairs regarding upcoming elections in strategically-located Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).

“India has no locus standi on the issue — legal, moral or historical. The regurgitation of false and fabricated claims by India can neither change the facts nor divert attention from India’s illegal actions and perpetration of the worst human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK),” said Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri in a statement here on Tuesday, hours after India protested over the announcement of elections in GB.

For over 72 years, the FO spokesman said, India had been in illegal and inhuman occupation of IIOJK. However, the indigenous Kashmiri resistance movement had only become stronger despite the incessant brutalisation of the Kashmiri people at the hands of Indian occupation forces, he added.

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