New Delhi
1 January 2010
Contesting the claim by the "so-called Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan", India on
Friday said that any action to alter the status of any part of the territory under the illegal
occupation of Pakistan has no legal basis whatsoever, and is completely unacceptable.
The so-called Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan had said that Gilgil-Baltistan has become
the 'fifth province' of Pakistan and therefore had no connection to Kashmir.
Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Vishnu Prakash said here in a statement that the
entire state of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India by virtue of its accession
to India in 1947.
"Pakistan's actions regarding Gilgit-Baltistan in the past few months cannot camouflage
its illegal occupation of part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, nor can they hide the
denial of basic rights to the people in that part for the past six decades," Mr Prakash
said.
He was responding to Pakistani media reports, which cited the "so-called Chief Minister
of Gilgit-Baltistan" Mehdi Shah as saying that the people of the area had decided their
accession to Pakistan after getting freedom from 'Dogra rule' and now the region has
become the fifth province of Pakistan and has no connection with Kashmir.
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