Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 17: A resolution voted by the Pakistan National Assembly on the country’s delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir has been termed ‘farcical’ by India.
“We categorically reject the farcical resolution…,” the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday.
Pakistan has no right to ‘pronounce on or interfere in matters that are internal to India, including Indian regions under Pakistan’s unlawful and forceful occupation,’ according to the MEA.
Notably, Pakistan’s Parliament unanimously passed a resolution last Thursday condemning India’s delimitation exercise, which is a regular procedure of demarcating parliamentary and assembly constituency boundaries based on census data.
The resolution’s sponsor, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said the Indian measure was aimed at distorting the Muslim majority’s vote power in Jammu and Kashmir. The MEA snarled back, claiming that the delimitation process was democratic and based on broad stakeholder input and participation.
The delimitation commission, which was created in March 2020, announced its final report on May 6, granting the Jammu region six new assembly seats and the Kashmir Valley one, as well as placing the Rajouri and Poonch territories under the Anantnag parliamentary seat. In the 90-member House, the Jammu division would have 43 seats and Kashmir will have 47.
India has demanded that Pakistan immediately cease anti-India cross-border terrorism and shut down its terror infrastructure.
