Pakistan rejects Indian remarks on GB elections

ISLAMABAD: Terming remarks by the spokesperson of the Indian Ministry for External Affairs about Gilgit-Baltistan elections as “unwarranted”, Pakistan on Friday said the Government of India has no locus standi in the matter. “We have seen the remarks by the Spokesperson of the Indian Ministry for External Affairs made today in which he has described the elections held in Gilgit-Baltistan yesterday as “just another cosmetic exercise intended to camouflage the fact of Pakistan’’s illegal occupation of areas of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.” “These remarks are unwarranted. The Government of India has no locus standi in the matter”, Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said in a statement issued here Friday.