PoK polls a ‘cosmetic exercise’, says India
The Hindu
An attempt by Pakistan to camouflage its illegal occupation, says MEA official
India on Thursday rejected the recent elections held in the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and termed it as a “cosmetic exercise”. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won 25 of the 45 seats in the Assembly of the region. “The so called elections in Indian territory under the illegal occupation of Pakistan are nothing but an attempt by Pakistan to camouflage its illegal occupation and the material changes undertaken by it in these territories,” said Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. The result announced last Monday was surrounded in controversy because of the heated exchanges among Prime Minister Imran Khan, PML-N’s Mariam Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party leader Bilawal Bhutto.More Related News
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