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India condemns Pakistan’s remarks

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Jammu & Kashmir: Islamabad threatens to go to U.N.

“Such remarks are factually wrong and bear no relationship to reality”
Says call for international involvement is gratuitous

NEW DELHI: India has reacted strongly to the Pakistani threat to take the issue of unsettled conditions in Jammu & Kashmir to the United Nations, saying such “series of remarks” by its leaders are “factually wrong and bear no relationship to the reality.”

Terming the recent spate of statements and resolutions by Ministers and the legislature in Islamabad as “a recurrence of Pakistani rhetoric and allegations,” the Foreign Office late on Wednesday said that “to call for international involvement in the sovereign internal affairs of India is gratuitous, illegal and only reflects reversion to a mindset that has led to no good consequences for Pakistan in the past.”

India said it was “not too late” for Pakistani leaders and spokesmen to desist from the course of action that they had recently embarked upon. “We would urge them to do so forthwith,” said Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Navtej Sarna.

This was the second Indian response in as many days to comments from Islamabad to disturbances in J&K. In the latest instance, New Delhi has expressed its ire over Islamabad’s suggestions of internationalising the dispute.

Observations

Earlier, India took umbrage at resolutions passed in Pakistan on the situation in J&K. Its Foreign Minister and official spokesperson were told that their observations about excessive force having been used in J&K “constitute[d] clear interference in the internal affairs of an integral part of India.”

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