The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday asserted that the government will do what it has to do as the people in Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) were India’s own.
Attempting to downplay repeated posers from the media regarding India’s next move in the case of PaK following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emphatic reference of the same in his Independence Day address, MEA official spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the plan of action cannot be shared at this stage.
“Several people from Balochistan and PoK, including Gilgit Baltistan, had messaged him (Prime Minister), had been writing to him following his comments at the all-party meeting in which he had flagged the atrocities being committed on the people of Balochistan,” Swarup said.
Asserting that the Prime Minister had been thanked by these people for flagging their cause, he added that the former was sufficiently moved by their gratitude massages.
“As far as the next course of action is concerned, Prime Minister also gave us certain instructions in the all-party meet. How those instructions will be implemented, I cannot at this stage share with you. However, the MEA will do what it has to do because after all the people of PoK are our own people,” Swarup added.
Prime Minister Modi, for the first time, raised the Balochistan and PaK issues in his Independence Day address this year.