UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott recently visited Mirpur in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

She justified her visit to the area claimed by India because “70% of British Pakistani roots are from Mirpur, making our work together crucial for diaspora interests”.

However, India has not made any official statement against Marriott yet.

India had expressed its disapproval last year when the US Ambassador to Pakistan had made a similar trip to PoK. “We would expect the international community to respect our soverignity and territorial integrity and the areas of PoK as we consider the entire territory as an integral part of India,’’ the Ministry of External Affairs had said earlier, when a similar visit was made by the US Ambassador to Pakistan.