No Amount of Rhetoric Can Alter Disputed Status of Jammu and Kashmir: PM

Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has emphatically stated that no amount of rhetoric can alter the internationally recognized disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir or deny the rights of its people enshrined in international law and the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

According to Radio Pakistan, in a post on his X handle, Prime Minister Sharif highlighted that the reality in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) remains unchanged, with a prolonged heavy military presence and draconian laws enabling India to execute demographic engineering. This engineering aims to alter the territory’s Muslim-majority status, alongside systematic efforts to silence the Kashmiri people and obliterate their identity.

Prime Minister Sharif asserted that hollow and unsubstantiated claims of development cannot substitute the inalienable right of the people of Jammu and Kashmir to determine their own future through a free and impartial plebiscite, as mandated by the United Nations.

The Prime Minister reiterated Pakistan’s unwavering support for the just struggle of the Kashmiri people, urging India to reverse its illegal measures, end its human rights violations, and create conditions conducive to a peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Charter, the relevant Security Council resolutions, and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.