SEP 23, 2023 : Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, the interim prime minister of Pakistan, mentioned Jammu and Kashmir in his address to the UN General Assembly, prompting India to criticise Pakistan on Friday. Kashmir, according to Kakar, holds the key to achieving peace between India and Pakistan. Pakistan has been a regular offender when it comes to utilising this August venue to peddle unfounded and vicious propaganda against India, according to Petal Gahlot, India’s first secretary at the UN for the second committee of the UNGA. The United Nations and other multilateral organisations’ members are fully aware that Pakistan uses this to divert attention from its own appalling record on human rights.We once again stress that Jammu and Kashmir are part of India as a whole. The issues involving the UTs of Ladakh and J&K are solely internal to India. No one from Pakistan has the right to weigh in on our internal affairs, she continued. Pakistan has attempted to internationalise Jammu and Kashmir over the years at international venues like the UN. Pakistan has been under fire from India for harbouring terrorists there. Pakistan is undoubtedly the outlier in the neighbourhood. We must prevent terrorism from becoming commonplace. We cannot allow that to serve as the basis for talks with Pakistan, stated S. Jaishankar, the minister of external affairs, in June of this year.After the terrorist assault in Pulwama on February 14, 2019, which resulted in the deaths of 40 members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), tensions between India and Pakistan grew. India replied by conducting airstrikes in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province’s Balakot. Six months later that year, India repealed Article 370, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its special status. The previous state was divided into the territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh when Article 370 was repealed.
