Pakistan rejects grant of domicile certificates to 25,000 Indian nationals in IOK.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has categorically rejected the grant of domicile certificates of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir by the Indian authorities to reportedly 25,000 Indian nationals.

According to media reports the Foreign Office Spokesperson said in a statement that Kashmiris have also rejected the bogus domicile certificates.

The certificates issued to non-Kashmiris including, among others, the Indian government officials under "Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure), 2020" are illegal, void and in complete violation of the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions, and International law including the 4th Geneva Convention.

She said the latest action is a vindication of Pakistan's consistent stance that the major intention behind the Indian Government's illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019 was to change the demographic structure of IOJ and K and turn Kashmiris into a minority in their own land. This has long been part of the RSS-BJP's "Hindutva" agenda.

By changing the demographic structure of IOJ and K, the Indian Government intends to undermine the exercise by the Kashmiri people of their right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nation as per the relevant UNSC Resolutions.

The Spokesperson said through these reprehensible actions, alongwith continuing restrictions, excruciating military crackdown, extra-judicial killings, arbitrary...