The spokesperson also said Jammu and Kashmir was an internationally recognized disputed territory.
"India's claims on Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan are founded in fantasy. Neither history and international law, nor morality and the situation on ground, can validate India's illusions. It should, therefore, direct its attention to full implementation of the relevant UNSC resolutions, which stipulate that the final disposition of the territory will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations," she added.
This is not the first time that Rajnath has threatened to 'liberate' Pakistan-administered Kashmir. On June 26, 2023, while while addressing a National Security Conclave in New Delhi, she said: "People living in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir will raise a demand to go with India. Pakistan does not have a locus standi there as it has illegally occupied the area. The Indian Parliament has unanimously passed at least three resolutions which state that PoK is a part of India."
Not surprisingly, Indian Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Kapil Patil had earlier expressed hope that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is integrated with India by 2024. "Hope PoK is integrated in India by 2024 as these things can be done only by Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
Patil recalled the Prime Minister Modi's statement in Rajya Sabha on the Kashmir issue in 2015:
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given such assurance in the Rajya Sabha wherein he had said that former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao had called a joint session of Parliament and in it, he (Rao) had said that PoK is the biggest problem of the country. The Kashmir will have to be taken by India at some point or the other, only then can a permanent solution be found. The Prime Minister had then pointed to the Congress and said that you could not do this, but I am doing it."
It may be pointed out that general elections are due in India in 2024 and Bhartia Janta Party (BJP) of Modi hopes to maintain power that it acquired in 2014.
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