Pakistan on Tuesday strongly condemned and completely rejected the Indian government's attempts to further deprive the people of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) through "Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure), 2020."
"The new domicile law is illegal and in clear violation of the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, international law including the 4th Geneva Convention and bilateral agreements between Pakistan and India," Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said, while out rightly rejecting the Modi government's "Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure), 2020".
She said that the domicile law was aimed at changing the demographic structure of the IOJ&K and undermining the exercise by the Kashmiri people of their right to self-determination through free and impartial plebiscite as per the relevant UNSC resolutions.
"We reiterate that such steps can neither change the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir recognised as such by the United Nations and the international community nor can they prejudice the inalienable right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people," she said, adding that the timing of this illegal Indian action is particularly reprehensible as it uses the world community's preoccupation with the Covid-19 pandemic and reflects the opportunistic and morally bankrupt mindset of the RSS-BJP combined.
Like the earlier illegal Indian actions, Farooqui added that the people of the IOJ&K have completely rejected the domicile law as "unacceptable."
The Kashmiri people will never accept the sinister "Hindutva" agenda of dispossessing them of their land, marginalizing them politically and economically, and depriving them of their distinct identity, she added.
Farooqui said that Pakistan has been consistently sensitising the international community about the real Indian designs behind its illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019.
Through these actions along with continuing restrictions, excruciating military crackdown, extra-judicial killings, arbitrary detentions and incarcerations, and grave human rights violations, she added that India seeks to perpetuate its illegal occupation of the IOJ&K. India will never succeed in its designs to subjugate the people of the IOJ&K or break their will by relentless state-terrorism.
"The United Nations and the international community must take immediate action to stop India from changing the demography and distinct identity of the IOJ&K and hold India accountable for the persistent violations of international law," she asserted.
Farooqui said that Pakistan will continue highlighting the plight of Kashmiri people at all international fora till the realization of their inalienable right to self-determination in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions.
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