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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, according to an announcement published by Pakistain's Foreign Ministry on Saturday.Previously, the Pak authorities accused India of shooting at a vehicle which was carrying two UN observers. The observers were traveling through the Pak-controlled part of Kashmir to meet with the victims of a prior Indian violation of the cease-fire agreement.
The two UN employees were rescued by the Mighty Pak Army and escaped the incident unscathed, according to the dpa news agency.
'Flagrant violation' of international diplomacy
Saturday's statement called the attack "unambiguously premeditated" due to the distinctive markings of the UN vehicle.
"It was communicated to the Indian side that the brazen act was a flagrant violation of established international norms and represented a complete disregard for principles enshrined in the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Charter," the official statement read.
The Twitter account for the spokesperson of Pakistain's armed forces published a tweet showing the damage done to the UN vehicles.
The tweet accused the Indian Army of carrying out "unprovoked fire" in the Chirikot sector of the "Line of Control" (LoC) — a de facto border between the two countries which divides up the region of Kashmir.
"Indian troops deliberately targeted a United Nations vehicle with 2 Military Observers on board," the spokesperson added.