Pakistan rejects India's 'illegal amendments' in occupied Kashmir's land ownership laws.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan on Wednesday categorically rejected India's recent illegal amendments in the land ownership laws in occupied Kashmir, saying it was a 'clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions, bilateral agreements between Pakistan and India, and international law'.

The Foreign Office in a statement reminded India that the valley is an 'internationally recognised dispute under the relevant UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions and international law'.

'India's illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019, and subsequent measures, particularly the domicile law and now the land ownership laws, are aimed at changing the demographic structure of IIOJK to convert the Kashmiris into a minority in their own land,' noted the FO.

It added that by changing the demographic structure of the occupied valley, New Delhi was violating the 4th Geneva Convention and committing a 'war crime'.

'All these measures and laws, lacking legal and moral legitimacy, are forced upon the oppressed people of IIOJK through the...

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