ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly rejected irresponsible remarks made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson on the joint press release of the Second Round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue.

Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson said that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) of India's contentions about Jammu and Kashmir being the so-called "integral and inalienable part" of India and an "internal affair" were a laughable fiction, totally contrary to historical and legal facts, and in violation of the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.

He said India's self-serving claims regarding Jammu and Kashmir, including the parts which were under illegal Indian occupation, had no basis whatsoever.

"The regurgitation of false claims by India can neither change facts nor divert attention from India's state-terrorism in the Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) and its egregious violations of human rights of the Kashmiri people," he said in a statement on Sunday.

The Foreign Office spokesperson said that India had no locus standi on the issue - historical, legal or moral.

The regurgitation of false claims by India can neither change facts nor divert attention from India's state-terrorism in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and its egregious violations of human rights of the Kashmiri people.

He said, "India must immediately vacate its illegal and forcible occupation of IoK and let the Kashmiris exercise their inalienable right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations as enshrined in the relevant UNSC Resolutions."

Pakistan also called on India to faithfully implement its international obligations rather than resorting to false and misleading assertions.

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