Pakistan on Monday said that India’s Supreme Court verdict upholding the abrogation of Article 370 has “no legal value”.
“International law doesn’t recognise India’s unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019. The judicial endorsement by the Indian Supreme Court has no legal value. Kashmiris have an inalienable right to self-determination by the relevant UN SC resolutions,” Pakistan’s caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani said in a post on X.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif criticised the top court’s verdict, calling it a “biased decision.”
“The Indian Supreme Court has violated the international laws by giving a decision against the resolutions of the United Nations. Indian Supreme Court has betrayed the sacrifice of millions of Kashmiris,” Sharif said.
With this “biased decision”, Kashmir’s “freedom movement” will become stronger, he further said, adding that there will be “no abatement in the Kashmiri struggle. Under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, PML-N will raise the voice of the right of Kashmiris at all levels, he added.
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the Centre’s decision of August 2019 to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed a special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
