Pak actions can`t camouflage illegal occupation of GB: India

New Delhi, Jan 1 (PTI) Reacting strongly to remarks by
"so-called Chief Minister" of Gilgit-Baltistan, India on
Friday said Pakistan's actions regarding the area in the past
few months cannot "camouflage" its "illegal occupation" of
that part of Jammu and Kashmir in north India which is
"completely unacceptable".
"We have seen media reports regarding remarks of the
so-called Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan in which he said
that Gilgit-Baltistan had become the 'fifth province' of
Pakistan and henceforth had no connection to Kashmir," the
official spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs said in
a statement here.
The entire state of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part
of India by virtue of its accession to India in 1947, he said.
Any action to alter the status of any part of the territory
under the "illegal occupation of Pakistan has no legal basis
whatsoever, and is completely unacceptable," he said.
"Pakistan's actions regarding Gilgit-Baltistan in the
past few months cannot camouflage its illegal occupation of
part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, nor can they hide the
denial of basic rights to the people in that part for the past
six decades," the spokesman said.
The newly-elected "Chief Minister" of Gilgit-Baltistan
Mehdi Shah had said that the people of the area had decided
their accession to Pakistan after getting freedom from 'Dogra
rule' and now the region has become the fifth province of
Pakistan and has no connection with Kashmir. PTI