India must refrain from taking any further illegal steps: Pakistan ahead of PM Narendra Modi's meeting with Jammu and Kashmir leaders

Pakistan said it would oppose any move by India to divide Kashmir and change its demography.

Islamabad: Pakistan said on Saturday (June 19, 2021) that it would oppose any move by India to divide Kashmir and change its demography. Pakistan's Foreign Office said in a statement that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has stated that India must refrain from taking any further illegal steps in Kashmir after its actions of August 5, 2019. The Pakistani statement came on a day when the Indian government invited 14 political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir to participate in a high-level meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on June 24, which is expected to set the road map for holding assembly elections in the Union Territory.