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PoK part of India, expect we will have physical jurisdiction one day: EAM Jaishankar

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is a part of India and we expect one day we will have physical jurisdiction over it, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday. 

His remarks come amid Pakistan's attempts internationalise India's decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. 

"Our position on PoK is, has always been and will always be very clear. PoK is part of India and we expect one day that we will have the physical jurisdiction over it," he said. 

Speaking at a press conference in Delhi on completion of 100 days of the second term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, Mr Jaishankar said the issue is not Article 370 but terrorists coming from Pakistan.

"With regard to Pak, the issue is not Article 370 but Pakistan’s terrorists. We must make the world realise. I always ask other people show me anywhere else in the world where any country conducts terrorism openly against its neighbour as part of what it considers its foreign policy," the EAM said. 

Jaishankar also indicated that he may have a meeting with Pak Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi during United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) next week. 

"On what happens, if or when, whatever..., I meet the Pakistani Foreign Minister on the sidelines of UNGA. We will see when that happens," he said. 

The minister also highlighted the treatment of minorities in Pakistan. 

"Regarding minorities in Pak, this isn't a new thing. Here's a country which is waxing eloquent about other nations. Look at their treatment of minorities, I think minority number has come down dramatically in the last 70 years to a point where they don't even put it out publicly anymore," he said. 

Raising the recent riots against the Hindu minority population where temples and a school was vandalised, he said, "What is happening now in Sindh (Pakistan) is not the only thing which has happened in last 100 days. You also had cases of abduction of Sikh girls. I think if there is a human rights audit today in this part of the world I can pretty confidently assert who'll come last in it."

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