'Pakistan must vacate': India slams election plans in POK's 'Gilgit-Baltistan'

NEW DELHI: The ministry of outer affairs (MEA) connected Friday lodged a "strong protest" implicit Pakistan's plans to clasp wide elections successful Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir's Gilgit-Baltistan assembly. "The Government of India lodged a beardown protestation with Pakistan regarding the latter’s plans to clasp “General Elections” to the alleged 'Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly', successful the Indian territories illegally and forcibly occupied by Pakistan, scheduled for 7 June 2026," MEA said successful a statement.It reiterated its stance connected Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh region, calling it an "integral and inalienable parts of India arsenic a effect of complete, ineligible and irrevocable accession of Jammu & Kashmir to India successful 1947," including POK's Gilgit-Baltistan assembly.It rejected the neighbouring nation's attempts to bring immoderate "material change" to the portion and demanded that it indispensable vacate the illegally occupied territories."The Government of India categorically rejects immoderate attempts by Pakistan to bring worldly alteration to areas nether Pakistan’s amerciable occupation, and underlines that specified actions cannot fell the information that Pakistan illegally remains successful possession of Indian territories, which it indispensable vacate," it said.

"The Government of India further emphasized that specified endeavours by Pakistan cannot disguise the underlying issues of sedate quality rights violations, governmental repression, economical exploitation and denial of state successful territories illegally occupied by Pakistan," it added.