New Delhi's Facade.

Responding to reports that New Delhi is contemplating hosting a G-20 summit in IIOJK, Pakistan has strongly reacted to this attempt of extending the BJP's facade of bringing in normalcy to the disputed territory. Islamabad is also right to expect that the G-20 members would not facilitate any such machinations as it would have extremely problematic implications from a human rights and international law lens.

India will be assuming the presidency of G-20 in December this year and according to reports it is planning to host the summit in the occupied region and has also set up a committee to make arrangements for the event. If this goes through, it will be the first international event in the disputed region since New Delhi unilaterally revoked the special status of the disputed territory on August 5, 2019.

Recently, the Indian government has attempted to craft a PR campaign of how normalcy is returning to IIOJK for international audience, especially considering how various human rights agencies have called out India for atrocities in the occupied territory.

This is another desperate attempt to deflect criticism from the...

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