India rejects J&K reference in Pak-China statement, raises CPEC
A day after the Pakistan-China joint statement mentioned Jammu and Kashmir, India on Saturday categorically rejected the reference and conveyed again its concerns on the China-Pakistan Economic corridor.
Reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir is an “integral and inalienable” part of India, New Delhi said that it expects Beijing and Islamabad to not interfere in the internal affairs of India.
Ministry of External Affairs’ official spokesperson Anurag Srivastava Saturday said, “As in the past, we categorically reject the reference to the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir in the Joint Press Release of the 2nd Round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue.
