India Creates Another Controversy On IIOJK.

ISLAMABAD -- India has created another controversy by announcing it might host the G-20 related meeting in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The idea violates the UN resolutions that accept Kashmir as a disputed territory. India has already illegally merged the disputed Kashmir into its Union Territory. The latest controversy by India comes amid crushing of minorities and victimization of the Muslims by the extremists in India. The bloodshed in held Kashmir Pakistan has already rejected any move to hold some G-20-related event in IIOJK. 'As is well-known, Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized 'disputed' territory between Pakistan and India. The territory has been under forcible and illegal occupation of India since 1947 and this dispute has remained on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council for over seven decades,' said Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmed.

Ignoring the international norms, India has constituted a five-member coordination committee for G-20 meetings in disputed Kashmir next year. The G-20 members represent more than 80% of the world's GDP, 75% of international trade and 60% of the world's population and Pakistan expects all these countries to ask India to host the event at an undisputed area.

G-20 member nations include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. India will also be getting the Presidency of the G-20 from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023. G-20 plays a key role in Global Economic Governance. This could be the first major international summit to be held in occupied Jammu and Kashmir after the occupied territory's special status was unlawfully abrogated and it was illegally divided into two Union territories on 5 August 2019. The illegally announcement by India to hold the G-20 event is another attempt to give legal cover to the illegal step by India to merge Kashmir into its Union Territory. India is responsible for widespread atrocities and egregious human rights violations in IIOJK. Since India's illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019, Indian occupation forces have killed 639 innocent Kashmiris in extra-judicial murders. Numerous reports of the UN, including the two...