ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi today (Monday) asserted that Jammu and Kashmir was not India’s internal matter and it is an internationally recognized dispute on the UN Security Council (UNSC) agenda.
“Let me be clear, Jammu & Kashmir is an internationally recognised dispute on the UN Security Council agenda,” the foreign minister said on Twitter, adding that IIOJK was not India’s internal matter.
Let me be clear: Jammu & Kashmir is an internationally recognised dispute on the @UN Security Council agenda. Final settlement of the dispute lies in #UNSC resolution calling for free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices. Nothing about J&K can be India’s internal matter.
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) May 10, 2021
The minister further wrote, “Final settlement of the dispute lies in UNSC resolution calling for free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices.”
The PML-N has called out the government over Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s recent statement on India’s move to scrap Article 370 of its constitution.
“In my opinion, Article 370 does not hold the same level of importance,” the foreign minister had said during a private interview, a few days ago. “What is of importance is Article 35-A. In my opinion, the important part of their constitution of Article 35-A.”
The foreign minister had then said that India was using Article 35-A to bring about demographic changes in occupied Kashmir. “See, Article 370 is their internal problem. These are their own frustrations and the matter is also pending before the Supreme Court and the people of occupied Kashmir have challenged it as well,” he added.
