Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) is, was and will remain a part of India and the Pakistan government will achieve nothing by repeatedly claiming PoK, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Jammu on Monday.
Weeks of anger over food shortage and runaway inflation has snowballed into massive anti-government demonstrations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and illegally held Gilgit Baltistan.
"Our aim is to implement the resolution unanimously passed in Indian Parliament on February 22, 1994 to reclaim remaining parts of Kashmir from the illegal occupation of Pakistan," the defence minister said at the ‘Shaurya Diwas’ celebrations held in Srinagar to commemorate the 75th year of air landed operations of Indian Army at Budgam Airport.
Many protesters have been seriously injured but the number of protesters who died has not been disclosed yet by the authorities.
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The protest comes as the Pakistan Supreme Court, in a recent order, allowed the amendment to the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan Order of 2018 to conduct the general elections in the region in September and setting up a caretaker government during the interim period.
Increasing ethno-religious nationalism and anti-Muslim sentiment in India heighten this risk as they might induce the Indian authorities to respond with particular force, said the report released on the occasion of the conference at which the Indian delegation was led by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
In KMC's Republic Day message that contained a picture of Mayor Firhad Hakim and was posted on Facebook, the two regions were found to be missing, leading to a furore.
PoK authorities have said that the toll could increase as some areas in the Neelum Valley were still inaccessible due to heavy snowfall, while weather officials forecast another spell of snowfall beginning on Friday.
“There is a parliamentary resolution that entire Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India. If Parliament wants that area (PoK) should also be ours…if we get any direction, we will definitely take appropriate action,” he said at a press conference here.
