India lodges a strong protest against the British High Commissioner's visit to Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), deeming it an "infringement of territorial integrity." The Minister of External Affairs asserts that such actions are unacceptable and reaffirms the integral status of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh as part of India. Tensions escalate as diplomatic rows unfold over sovereignty concerns. Stay updated on this developing diplomatic situation and its implications.
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00:00 On Saturday, January 13, the Minister of External Affairs officially protested the objectionable
00:06 visit of the British High Commissioner in Islamabad to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on
00:12 January 10, 2024.
00:15 The statement strongly emphasized that such impringement of India's sovereignty and territorial
00:20 integrity is unacceptable.
00:23 Additionally, it was mentioned that the Foreign Secretary has launched a strong protest with
00:28 the British High Commissioner in India regarding this infringement.
00:33 The statement emphatically asserts that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and
00:38 Ladakh are, have been and shall always remain an integral part of India.
00:44 This declaration comes in response to the visit of the UK High Commissioner to Pakistan,
00:48 Jane Marriott, to Mirpur in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) on January 10.
00:56 According to reports from Pakistani media, Jane Marriott, the first woman British High
01:00 Commissioner to Pakistan, defended her visit to Mirpur, citing that 70 per cent of British-Pakistani
01:07 routes are from Mirpur.
01:09 The MEA had issued a similar protest after US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Bloom had
01:15 visited POK's Muzaffarabad in October last year.
01:18 "We would expect the international community to respect our sovereignty and territorial
01:24 integrity and the areas of POK as we consider the entire territory as an integral part of
01:30 India," the MEA had said.
01:34 In her statement, Bloom had termed Muzaffarabad as part of AJK, Azad Kashmir, which led India
01:40 to raise the issue with the US.
01:43 In December, images of the US envoy interacting with the residents of Gilgit-Baltistan in
01:49 Pakistan-occupied Kashmir also caught attention.
01:52 At that time, MEA spokesperson Arundhati Bakshi expressed India's objections to the visit
01:58 and meetings in POK by the US envoy and this stance has been communicated accordingly.
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