On Monday India lodges protest over Pakistan SC allowing polls in Gilgit-Baltistan, Recently Pakistan Supreme court orders to conduct general elections in the so-called “Gilgit-Baltistan” region.

“It has clearly conveyed that the entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including Gilgit and Baltistan. They are an integral part of India by virtue of its fully legal and irreversible,” it said. India asked them to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation as claimed the region as part of India.

“The government of Pakistan or its judiciary has no locus standig on territories illegally and forcibly occupied by it. India completely rejects such actions and continued attempts to bring material changes in Pakistan occupied areas of the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” it said.

India lodges protest over Pakistan SC allowing polls in Gilgit – Baltistan. As we know the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region was under dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.