On Monday, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief and its prime ministerial candidate Shehbaz Sharif, the brother of jailed former premier, Nawaz Sharif claimed that if he won the elections, he would unite Kashmir with Pakistan.
India.com reported that Sharif said he would create an environment for Kashmir to join the country if he gets elected. The report stated that Sharif slammed India for ‘inhumane treatment’ of Kashmiris.
Adding that Kashmir would become part of Pakistan through peace and development, Sharif said: “I believe that it will be like the Berlin Wall being pulled down. It was the prosperity in West Germany that united the two parts.”
Speaking to Geo TV, Sharif said that he would meet the Malaysian prime minister and Turkish President “to learn from them and make Pakistan a great nation again”.
Pakistan refers to the Kashmir under its administration as Azad Jammu and Kashmir while India calls it Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. On the other hand, Pakistan calls the Indian Administered Kashmir as Indian Held Kashmir.
Early in June, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) dominated joint sitting of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly and the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) council approved the amendments to the AJK constitution.
Last month, India had summoned Pakistan’s deputy high commissioner Syed Haider Shah and lodged a strong protest over Islamabad’s latest move relating to administrative authority over the Gilgit-Baltistan region, saying any action to alter the status of any part of the territory under its “forcible and illegal occupation” has no legal basis.
The MEA had said it conveyed to Shah that the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir, which also includes the Gilgit-Baltistan areas, is an integral part of India by virtue of its accession in 1947.
Through its order on Gilgit-Baltistan on May 21, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi seized more authority from the local council to deal with the affairs of the region.
