Post abrogation of Article 370, PoK can aspire to be part of Kashmir: Rajnath
Singh claimed today the country is in safe hands and you can be assured that the country's borders are safe.
Singh claimed today the country is in safe hands and you can be assured that the country's borders are safe.
Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra lodged a strong protest with British High Commissioner in India Alex Ellis in this regard, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday.
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.
Wang Yi had said that the Kashmir issue is a 'dispute left from the past, and should be properly and peacefully resolved based in accordance with the UN Charter, UNSC resolutions and bilateral agreements'.
The writer is Chairman, Environmental Impact Assessment (Industry-II), Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India. The views expressed are personal.
The Army on Wednesday, released a video of an infiltration bid by Pakistan across the Line of Control.
Conservative MP Bob Blackman had earlier stressed that revocation of Article 370 was an 'internal matter' of India.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh had earlier in a statement said that the next agenda of the government is retrieving PoK and making it a part of India.
