‘J&K is India’s Union Territory, its only relation to Pakistan is vacation of PoK’: MEA junks Pak Army chief’s remarks

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday slammed Pakistan’s Chief of Army Asim Munir’s comment on Jammu and Kashmir, saying that the region is India’s Union Territory and that “its only relation to Pakistan is vacation of Pok.”

Addressing the Overseas Pakistanis Convention in Islamabad on Wednesday, Munir dubbed Kashmir as the “jugular vein” of Islamabad, adding that Pakistan won’t “forget it”.

Reacting to Munir’s comments, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “How can anything foreign be in a jugular vein? This is a union territory of India. Its only relationship with Pakistan is the vacating of illegally occupied territories by that country.”

During the same event, Munir floated the two-nation theory and stressed that India and Pakistan are two different countries.

“You have to narrate Pakistan’s story to your children so that they don’t forget it when our forefathers thought we were different from Hindus in every possible aspect of life. Our religion is different, our customs are different, our traditions are different, our thoughts are different, our ambitions are different, that’s where the foundation of the two-nation theory was laid. We are two nations, we are not one nation," the army general said.

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He reiterated that Pakistanis should not forget the “story of Pakistan”, how it was formed, and the sacrifices made by its forefathers, “so that their bond with Pakistan never weakens, whether it is the third generation, or the fourth generation, or the fifth generation, they know what Pakistan is for them.”