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Pakistan rejects India’s “baseless” claims on Kashmir’s status

From Dawn · () English

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  • Pakistan rejected an Indian statement insisting that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh must appear according to India’s official map.
  • Pakistan’s Foreign Office said India’s unilateral sovereignty claims did not affect Kashmir’s internationally recognised disputed status.
  • The dispute followed a United Nations vote on a resolution concerning the representation of continental landmasses, which India supported.

Pakistan has rejected what it called India’s “baseless” claims about the status of occupied Kashmir.

unilateral claims of sovereignty have no bearing on the internationally recognised disputed status of the territory

· Pakistan Foreign OfficePakistan rejected India’s position on Kashmir’s status.

The Foreign Office said India’s “unilateral claims of sovereignty have no bearing on the internationally recognised disputed status of the territory”. The statement followed comments from India’s Ministry of External Affairs about how its territory should be shown on maps.

including Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh

· India’s Ministry of External AffairsThe ministry referred to the territories it said must be depicted according to India’s official map.

India said a recent United Nations resolution did not endorse any particular map, projection or depiction of natural boundaries. It nevertheless insisted that its territory, including Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, must be represented according to its official map, calling any deviation “unacceptable”.

unacceptable

· India’s Ministry of External AffairsThe ministry described deviations from India’s official map in those depictions.

India was among 164 countries that voted for the resolution, which was led by several African countries and sought “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses. The resolution would make Africa appear larger while shrinking North America and Europe, according to the supplied account.

a more accurate representation

· United Nations resolutionThe phrase described the aim of the resolution on the representation of continental landmasses.
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