Islamabad, August 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): Pakistan believes that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have the right to determine their own future in a United Nations-supervised plebiscite as enshrined in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions. Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch at her weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Monday said since 2019, India has taken a series of measures to change the demographic makeup of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and intensified its suppression of the Kashmiri people.
She said India has carried out a selective delimitation of electoral constituencies, issued fake domiciles to lakhs of non-Kashmiris and added hundreds of thousands of temporary residents to alter the existing voter rolls. The Spokesperson said these measures are aimed at disenfranchising the people of Kashmir and converting them into a disempowered minority in their own land in gross violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said Pakistan will continue to extend political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiris for the peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions.
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