‘Pakistan considers you as foreigners’: Rajnath Singh urges PoK residents to join India
The minister cited an affidavit by the neighbouring country’s additional attorney general, which described Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as ‘foreign territory’.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday urged the residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to join India, saying that the people of the country consider them to be their own.
At a rally in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban town ahead of Assembly elections, Singh cited an affidavit filed by Pakistan's additional attorney general before the Islamabad High Court on May 31. The affidavit had said that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was “foreign territory”.
“I want to tell the people of PoK: the people of Pakistan consider you as foreigners, but Indians do not consider you as foreigners,” the defence minister said at the rally. “We consider you as our own people. So, come and join us.”
Singh claimed that the residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir would “see the development here and say that they no longer want to be with Pakistan”.
पाकिस्तान की सरकार पीओके को foreign land मानती है लेकिन भारत पीओके को अपना मानता है… pic.twitter.com/dYg4fxYsaT— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) September 8, 2024
He also claimed that there had been a massive transformation in the Kashmir Valley after the abrogation of its special status under Article 370 of the Constitution.
“Earlier, many young people in Kashmir would carry revolvers and pistols in their hands, but now they carry laptops and computers,” he said. “There has not been even a single incident...
