Ahmedabad Times

NEW DELHI: India on early Saturday rebuked Pakistan on the United Nations Normal Meeting (UNGA), accusing it of misusing UN platforms to advance its political agenda and reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir “was, is, and can all the time stay” an integral a part of India.Talking through the Normal Meeting’s plenary assembly on the Annual Report of the UN Safety Council, India’s Everlasting Consultant to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, stated Pakistan had as soon as once more raised points that had been strictly India’s inner issues.“The unwarranted reference by Pakistan to a matter strictly inner to India, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, has compelled me to reply,” the Indian envoy stated.Responding to Pakistan’s Everlasting Consultant Asim Iftikhar Ahmad’s references to the Union Territory, India additional alleged that Pakistan had abused its place as a member of the UN Safety Council by circulating “misinformed and deceptive communications.”“Pakistan has determined to not spare this discussion board both from their attribute misuse of august UN platforms for his or her divisive political pursuits. I would wish to remind Pakistan that being a member of the UN Safety Council is a large duty. It isn’t a discussion board for peddling biased and false narratives,” the envoy stated.‘J&Ok will stay an integral a part of India’, envoy reiteratedMaking India’s place clear on Kashmir, the diplomat acknowledged, “Jammu and Kashmir was, is, and can all the time stay an integral and inalienable a part of India. Any assertions on the contrary are baseless, devoid of and inconsistent with historic information.”He added that “empty rhetoric and hole claims by Pakistan wouldn’t change this basic actuality.”The remarks got here throughout a broader dialogue on the safety council’s annual report.India additionally known as for the report back to be submitted earlier within the 12 months and urged reforms to make the Safety Council extra consultant of latest geopolitical realities.“Retaining the established order has up to now not enabled efficient functioning of the Safety Council and can’t accomplish that in future,” the Indian envoy stated, advocating enlargement of each the everlasting and non-permanent classes of Council membership.The remarks had been delivered as India participated within the UN Normal Meeting plenary on the Annual Report of the Safety Council, the place it additionally congratulated Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe on their election to the Safety Council for the 2027-28 time period.India slams ballot plans in PoK’s Gilgit-BaltistanThe ministry of exterior affairs (MEA) on Friday lodged a “sturdy protest” over Pakistan’s plans to carry basic elections in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan meeting.”The Authorities of India lodged a robust protest with Pakistan concerning the latter’s plans to carry “Normal Elections” to the so-called ‘Gilgit-Baltistan Meeting’, within the Indian territories illegally and forcibly occupied by Pakistan, scheduled for 7 June 2026,” MEA stated in an announcement.It reiterated its stance on Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh area, calling it an “integral and inalienable elements of India because of full, authorized and irrevocable accession of Jammu & Kashmir to India in 1947,” together with POK’s Gilgit-Baltistan meeting.“The Authorities of India categorically rejects any makes an attempt by Pakistan to convey materials change to areas below Pakistan’s unlawful occupation, and underlines that such actions can not conceal the truth that Pakistan illegally stays in possession of Indian territories, which it should vacate,” it stated.