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The MEA said New Delhi made a demarche, formal diplomatic representations, to a senior Pakistan diplomat and conveyed that 'the entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the areas of Gilgit and Balochistan, are an integral part of India
The protestors have accused Islamabad of undermining their right to self-determination.
The people of Gilgit-Baltistan have strengthened their voice against Pakistan`s immoral imposition of taxes on them.
Europe's leading think tanks have declared that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor or CPEC is violating the human rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan, a disputed territory over which the highway passes, and its construction is causing immense ecological damage to the region.
They were protesting against the project as they fear it would create a huge ecological imbalance.
Maqsood alleged that the people of the PoK region do not have freedom to exercise their fundamental rights.
Baloch Diaspora France President Ali Akbar Mengal has said the China Pakistan Economic Project (CPEC), an initiative under the One Road, One Belt project that seeks to connect Pakistan's Gwadar port to Chinese Xinjiang Province, would continue to face stiff resistance by the Baloch people as the project intends to only benefit the Chinese and the Punjabis in Pakistan.
They also shouted slogans against the Nawaz Sharif government.
A BJP member on Friday demanded reservation of five seats in the Lok Sabha and one in the Rajya Sabha for residents of Gilgit and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) regions.
A moderate intensity earthquake jolted the Kashmir Valley on Saturday although no immediate report of any casualty or damage to property was reported.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) called off flights to Gilgit and Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan- occupied-Kashmir (PoK).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address from the ramparts of the Red Fort, almost reproached Pakistan for human rights violations in Balochistan.
With Pakistan registering five cases, including sedition, against three top Baloch nationalist leaders for allegedly backing Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s words on Balochistan in his Independence Day speech, defence expert Sushant Sareen on Tuesday said they refused to be sold at the hands of Pakistan and continued with their freedom struggle from foreign asylums.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi should first account for the alleged "atrocities" committed by India in Kashmir before talking about Balochistan, Pakistan's main Opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto said on Wednesday and vowed to maintain the country's sovereignty at every cost.
India-Pakistan ties have become frosty after large-scale violence broke out in Jammu and Kashmir following the killing of militant Burhan Wani on July 8.
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making a reference of Balochistan in his Independence Day speech, the Congress on Tuesday said it seems that the Centre is ready to sacrifice Kashmir for Balochistan.
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