{"id":34818,"date":"2020-11-01T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=34818"},"modified":"2020-11-01T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:53:55","slug":"india-rejects-pakistans-status-to-gilgit-baltistan-says-it-has-no-locus-standi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=34818","title":{"rendered":"India rejects Pakistan\u2019s status to Gilgit-Baltistan, says it has no locus standi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>: India on Sunday rejected Pakistan\u2019s move of granting provisional-provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan. In a strongly worded reply, spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs Anurag Srivastava said \u201cthe area of so-called Gilgit-Baltistan\u201d are an integral part of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Underlining India\u2019s stand on the issue, MEA\u2009officials said that the territory has been illegally and forcibly occupied by Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI reiterate that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the area of so-called \u201cGilgit-Baltistan\u201d, are an integral part of India by virtue of the legal, complete and irrevocable accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India in 1947. The Government of Pakistan has no locus standi on territories illegally and forcibly occupied by it,\u201d a statement released by MEA\u2009stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Such attempts by Pakistan, MEA\u2009said, \u2018intended to camouflage its (Pakistan) illegal occupation, cannot hide the grave human rights violations, exploitation and denial of freedom for over seven decades to the people residing in these Pakistan occupied territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of seeking to alter the status of these Indian territories, we call upon Pakistan to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday officially announced the provincial status of Gilgit-Baltistan, which New Delhi asserts is part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Gilgit- Baltistan, earlier known as Northern Areas has been governed by the \u201cGilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order of 2009\u201d, which established an electoral framework. Elections have been held in the region under the Order that provides for only limited autonomy. (HT)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India on Sunday rejected Pakistan\u2019s move of granting provisional-provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan. In a strongly worded reply, spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs Anurag Srivastava said \u201cthe area of so-called Gilgit-Baltistan\u201d are an integral part of India. Underlining India\u2019s stand on the issue, MEA\u2009officials said that the territory has been illegally and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}