ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday declared the local government elections in occupied Kashmir as illegal and against the international laws.
Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told media that the Indian government unilaterally abolished the status of the Kashmir issue in August 2019, which was also illegal and against the UN mandate.
The disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be changed in the presence of the United Nations Security Council resolutions that promised to give the right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir, she said.
Ms Baloch added that the sham local government elections in occupied Kashmir can never be a substitute to the plebescite promised under the UNSC resolutions.
In reply to a question, the FO spokesperson said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will leave to attend the UN General Assembly meeting on September 23. She said that on the sidelines of the UN meeting the prime minister will meet a number of world leaders. However, she said that Pakistan had not received any request from the Indian government for a meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The spokesperson also condemned the Israeli barbarism in Gaza and the recent incidents of pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon. She said the people and government of Pakistan always stood with the people of Palestine.
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