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The Gilgit-Baltistan Bar Council has blasted India’s foreign ministry for its opposition to the election process in Gilgit-Baltistan and staking a claim to the territory.
“We condemn the Indian claim that Pakistan has illegally occupied Gilgit-Baltistan,” advocate Shehbaz Khan, Vice Chairman of the Bar Council, told The Express Tribune on Saturday.
“The people of G-B voluntarily and with their free will joined Pakistan after independence.”
The Indian ministry of external affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup’s claims came days before the ruling PML-N won the legislative assembly elections.
Advocate Khan reminded the Indians that G-B was never historically a part of India or even the region of Kashmir.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2015.
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