Exterior Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar spoke concerning the state of affairs in Jammu and Kashmir and the steps taken by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central authorities, reminiscent of eradicating Article 370, restoring development, financial exercise, and social justice in Kashmir, and holding elections, which had been efficiently carried out within the Union Territory with a big turnout.
Jaishankar delivered the remarks whereas talking at Chatham Home in London. He stated that solely the a part of Jammu and Kashmir illegally managed by India’s neighbour Pakistan was the one factor that was left to achieve a whole decision of the issues in Jammu and Kashmir.
On being requested concerning the problems with Kashmir, EAM Jaishankar stated, “Look, in Kashmir, we’ve achieved a superb job fixing most of it. I feel eradicating Article 370 was step primary. Then, restoring development and financial exercise and social justice in Kashmir. It was step quantity two, holding elections, which was achieved with a really excessive turnout for step quantity three. I feel the half we’re ready for is the return of the stolen a part of Kashmir, which is underneath the unlawful Pakistani occupation. When that is achieved, I guarantee you. Kashmir solved.”
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Earlier on Could 9, 2024, the EAM asserted that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is part of India and stated that each Indian political celebration was dedicated to making sure that POK returns to India.
Throughout an interplay with college students of Delhi College’s Gargi Faculty, New Delhi, EAM Jaishankar stated, “All I can say about POK is that there a Parliament decision…each political celebration of this nation is dedicated to making sure that POK, which is part of India, returns to India. That’s our nationwide dedication.”
He additionally asserted that the scrapping of Article 370 in August 2019 paved the best way for individuals to consider the problem of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as nicely. “As a result of we’ve lastly taken the appropriate determination on Article 370, the POK situation has come to the entrance of individuals’s pondering. The primary prerequisite for one thing taking place is that it needs to be in your ideas,” he stated.
Earlier on Could 5, 2024, EAM Jaishankar stated that POK is a part of India and that folks had been “made to overlook” about it. Responding to a query on India’s plans for POK throughout an occasion in Cuttack in Odisha, he stated, “POK has by no means been out of this nation. It’s a part of this nation. There’s a decision of the Indian Parliament that POK could be very a lot part of India.”
He stated that India did not inform Pakistan to vacate the area through the “early years of independence,” as a result of which the “sorry state of affairs” continued. “When you have got somebody who will not be a accountable custodian of the home, bahar se koi chori kar leta hai (somebody steals from outdoors),” EAM Jaishankar stated. The Exterior Affairs Minister stated that folks had been “made to overlook concerning the situation of POK,” and it had been introduced again into their consciousness.
