ISLAMABAD: Pakistan completely rejected baseless Indian contentions regarding alleged damage to Buddhist cultural heritage in Gilgit Baltistan.
According to a statement issued today (Thursday), FO Spokesperson said, “The Indian allegations are contrary to the historical facts, international law, and relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions.”
The statement said, “The Indian government’s contentions concerning the Buddhist cultural heritage in Gilgit-Baltistan are preposterous. These are part of Indian leadership’s unrelenting anti-Pakistan propaganda.”
The statement further stated, “Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory recognized as such by the international community. The Dispute is the longest outstanding item on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) which remains unresolved due to forcible, brutal, and illegal occupation of a part of Jammu and Kashmir by India since 1947.”
“The regurgitation of false and preposterous Indian claims does not change the disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir,” the statement added.
FO Spokesperson also said, “India’s state terrorism and extrajudicial killings in fake encounters in IOJ&K, vandalization, and destruction of minorities’ places of worship including the historic Babri Mosque, lynchings by cow vigilantes under government’s watch, Gujarat massacre of 2002 and targeted killings of Muslims in Delhi in February 2020, and rendering millions of people stateless with discriminatory steps such as NRC are well documented by international human rights and humanitarian organisations.”
“Rather than pretending concerns for minorities beyond its borders, it is time for Indian leadership to do serious introspection and take requisite steps to safeguard and protect the lives, rights, and places of workshop of minorities in India,” it added.
“India must realize that its baseless contentions about Gilgit-Baltistan cannot divert international attention away from the Jammu &Kashmir dispute and the need for its immediate resolution in accordance with the relevant UNSC Resolutions and aspirations of Kashmiri people,” the statement concluded.
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