India has strongly protested the recent visit to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by the UK’s envoy to the neighbouring country. “Such infringement is unacceptable,” the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.
In the statement, the ministry said, “India has taken a serious note of the highly objectionable visit of the British High Commissioner in Islamabad, along with a UK Foreign Office official, to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on 10 January 2024. Such infringement of India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is unacceptable.”
The ministry said India registered a strong protest with the UK’s High Commissioner in India regarding it. “Foreign secretary has lodged a strong protest with the British High Commissioner in India on this infringement. The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are, have been and shall always remain an integral part of India,” it said.
Jane Marriot, British High Commissioner to Pakistan visited Mirpur in occupied Kashmir on January 10. Mirpur and its adjoining districts of Bhimber and Kotli are home to a large number of dual nationals who constitute an estimated 70 pc of British Pakistani-Kashmiri diaspora, Dawn reported.
