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Day 392: India Rejects Pakistan's UNGA Kashmir Claims — 'J&K Was, Is and Will Always Remain Part of India'

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June 6, 2026 marks Day 392 of the India-Pakistan ceasefire established on May 10, 2025. During the UN General Assembly debate on the Annual Report of the Security Council, India's Permanent Representative Parvathaneni Harish delivered a sharp rebuttal to Pakistan's envoy after Pakistan raised the Jammu & Kashmir dispute. Ambassador Harish stated that 'Jammu and Kashmir was, is, and will always remain an integral part of India' and accused Pakistan of misusing the international platform to 'peddle biased and false narratives' in a 'carefully choreographed attempt to conflate fact with fiction.' Pakistan's Political Coordinator at the UN countered that Kashmir is 'an internationally recognised dispute on the agenda of the Security Council' and demanded a UN-supervised plebiscite, categorically rejecting India's sovereignty assertion. The UNGA exchange is the latest in India-Pakistan diplomatic battles at multilateral forums following Operation Sindoor in May 2025. India has consistently rejected third-party discussion of J&K at international bodies, citing the 1972 Simla Agreement's bilateral resolution framework. The exchange came one day before Pakistan's scheduled Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections on June 7 — elections India formally protested on June 5 as a violation of Indian sovereignty. Earlier in the week, India's MEA had categorically rejected a Kashmir reference in the EU-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue joint communiqué (June 3) and had reaffirmed the Indus Waters Treaty remains 'in abeyance' (June 5). The ceasefire holds at Day 392 with no LOC violations since May 10, 2025. The bilateral freeze — no ambassadors, $0 formal trade, IWT suspended, Pakistan airspace ban through June 23-24 — remains fully intact.

India's UN envoy Parvathaneni Harish rejects Pakistan's Kashmir claims at UNGA: 'J&K was, is, and will always remain an integral part of India'
India's UN envoy Parvathaneni Harish rejects Pakistan's Kashmir claims at UNGA: 'J&K was, is, and will always remain an integral part of India' — India TV News