New Delhi/Islamabad: India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over Islamabad’s plans to hold elections to the Gilgit-Baltistan assembly on June 7, maintaining that the region is Indian territory that has been “illegally and forcibly” occupied.
India reiterated its position that the entire Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the so-called ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’ are “integral and inalienable parts of India as a result of complete, legal and irrevocable accession” of Jammu and Kashmir to India in 1947.
However, Pakistan on Friday rejected the remarks by India.
In a statement, the Foreign Office said that Pakistan “categorically rejects India’s baseless remarks regarding the upcoming elections in Gilgit-Baltistan”.
