India’s strong protest came after Pakistan’s Prime Minister launched the dam on Wednesday.
New Delhi:
India said on Thursday that it had vigorously protested to Pakistan against the construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and condemned Islamabad’s continued attempts to bring about material change in the Indian territories under its occupation illegal.
India’s strong protest came after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan launched construction work on the Diamer-Bhasha dam on Chilas in Gilgit-Baltistan on Wednesday, despite New Delhi’s opposition to the mega-backed project. China.
Asked about the developments at the weekly briefing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that India had expressed its position on the matter earlier and that it remained unchanged.
“The entire territory of the Union of Jammu and Kashmir and the territory of the Union of Ladakh have been, are and will be an integral and inalienable part of India. We have vigorously protested against the construction of this roadblock with the government of Pakistan, “said Dit Srivastava.
“This dam will cause much of the land in the Indian territories of J&K and Ladakh to be submerged and we condemn Pakistan’s continued attempts to bring about significant changes in the Indian territories under its illegal occupation,” he said. he declares.
India has also consistently expressed its protest and shared concerns with China and Pakistan over all of these projects in Indian territories under illegal occupation of Pakistan where it has no locus standi, spokesman said. ‘AEM.
The Pakistani government signed a huge Rs 442 billion contract in May with a joint venture between a Chinese state-owned company and a business arm of the powerful Pakistani military to build the Diamer-Bhasha dam.
Asked about reports that Pakistan would allow the export of Afghan goods via Wagah, Srivastava said it was another example of Pakistan’s creation of a mirage of goodwill.
“Let us be clear about this, Pakistan does not allow Afghan trucks to transport Afghan goods and seeks monopoly transportation practices. It does not allow the bidirectional transit rights of Afghanistan as they are engaged in. under Article 3 of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (also known as APTTA), “he said.
“Thus, Pakistan has followed a policy of creating captive markets by refusing full access to transit to Afghanistan by restricting products from India and other countries. It is not meeting its own commitments in the APTTA framework, “said Mr. Srivastava.
Pakistan even denied the transit of humanitarian aid in the form of subsidies, including wheat from India, to Afghanistan, he said.
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