{"id":36415,"date":"2026-01-17T03:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36415"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:04:13","slug":"pakistan-rebuffs-indias-integral-part-claim-on-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36415","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan rebuffs India&#8217;s &#8216;integral part&#8217; claim on Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pakistan has brushed aside India&#8217;s untenable claim that Jammu and Kashmir was its &#8220;integral and inalienable part&#8221;, saying that the UN resolutions recognized the Himalayan state as a disputed territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jammu and Kashmir is not &#8216;an integral part&#8217; of India, nor has it ever been so under international law,&#8221; Pakistani delegate Asif Khan told the UN General Assembly on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to Indian delegate Eldos Punoose who protested a pointed reference to the unresolved Kashmir dispute made by Pakistan&#8217;s Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad while commenting on the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres&#8217; priorities for 2026 that the UN chief presented to the 193-member Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Punoose, a counsellor in the Indian Mission to the UN, called &#8220;unwarranted&#8221; the Pakistani Ambassador&#8217;s remark that the denial of the right of self-determination to the Kashmir people undermined the credibility of the international system.<\/p>\n<p>Exercising his right of reply Asif Khan, Minister in the Pakistan Mission to the UN, said the Indian arguments represented &#8220;a tired trope intended to obscure established facts and legal realities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Setting the record straight, Asif Khan said India continues to deny this right to the people of Jammu and Kashmir for decades, a right affirmed by the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, coupled with systematic suppression.<\/p>\n<p>The final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir is to be determined in accordance with the freely expressed will of its people, through a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under United Nations auspices, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This position is also reflected on official United Nations maps. India accepted these decisions and remains bound to implement them under Article 25 of the UN Charter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since 5 August 2019, the Pakistani delegate said, India has embarked on a course aimed at transforming the occupied territory from a Muslim-majority state into a Hindu-majority territory, in blatant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and international law. APP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has brushed aside India&#8217;s untenable claim that Jammu and Kashmir was its &#8220;integral and inalienable part&#8221;, saying that the UN resolutions recognized the Himalayan state as a disputed territory. &#8220;Jammu and Kashmir is not &#8216;an integral part&#8217; of India, nor has it ever been so under international law,&#8221; Pakistani delegate Asif Khan told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}