Pakistan rejects India's claims about Kashmir dispute resolutions

The Foreign Office (FO) of Pakistan has rejected India's claims regarding the Kashmir conflict. On Thursday, FO Spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan stated that India cannot blame the UN Security Council for its resolutions on Kashmir, as India first approached the UN about the issue in 1948. Khan's comments were in response to Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who criticized the UN's handling of the Kashmir dispute during the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi. Jaishankar argued that after World War II, India has had the longest illegal occupation of territory in Kashmir. He called for a stronger and fairer UN. Khan expressed concern about the increasing frequency of what he termed India's "unwarranted assertions" on Jammu and Kashmir. He emphasized that Jammu and Kashmir is internationally recognized as a disputed territory. The final status of the region should be decided by its people through a UN-supervised plebiscite, according to relevant UNSC resolutions. Earlier this month, Khan had also dismissed Jaishankar’s remarks regarding Azad Jammu and Kashmir as baseless. Jaishankar had claimed that India was waiting for the return of parts of Kashmir under Pakistani control. Additionally, during the briefing, Khan addressed allegations of Indian involvement in a recent train attack in Pakistan's Balochistan region. He asserted that India has a history of involvement in terrorism within Pakistan and is working to destabilize the entire South Asian region.