Pakistan on Monday categorically rejected the judgement announced by the Supreme Court of India on the status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Pakistan, in a statement issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later in a press conference by Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani, made it clear that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally-recognized dispute, which remains on the agenda of the UN Security Council for over seven decades and the final disposition of Jammu and Kashmir is to be made following the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions and as per aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
“India has no right to make unilateral decisions on the status of this disputed territory against the will of the Kashmiri people and Pakistan,” the MOFA statement said.
Pakistan maintained that it does not acknowledge the supremacy of the Indian Constitution over Jammu and Kashmir. Any process, subservient to the Indian Constitution, carries no legal significance. India cannot abdicate its international obligations on the pretext of domestic legislations and judicial verdicts. Its plans to annex IIOJK are bound to fail.
Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani said that the judicial endorsement of India’s unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019 is a travesty of justice, based on distorted historical and legal arguments.
