Islamabad: Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that as India's unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) complete seven years, no amount of rhetoric can alter the internationally recognized disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir or deny the rights of its people enshrined in international law and the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

In a statement issued on X, PM Shehbaz Sharif said that the reality in IIOJK remains that a prolonged heavy military presence and draconian laws are enabling India to pursue its demographic engineering aimed at altering the territory's Muslim-majority status, alongside systematic efforts to silence the Kashmiri people and obliterate their identity.

He said that the hollow and unsubstantiated claims of development cannot substitute the inalienable right of the people of Jammu and Kashmir to determine their own future through a free and impartial plebiscite, as mandated by the United Nations.

PM Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan reiterates its unwavering support for the just struggle of the Kashmiri people and calls on India to reverse its illegal measures, end its human rights violations, and create conditions conducive to a peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Charter, the relevant Security Council resolutions, and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.