ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed its strong indignation over India’s decision to hold the G-20 Tourism Working Group meeting in Srinagar.

In a statement on Tuesday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said scheduling of two other meetings of a consultative forum on Youth Affairs in Leh and Srinagar in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is equally disconcerting.

The Spokesperson said India’s irresponsible move is the latest in a series of self-serving measures to perpetuate its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir in sheer disregard of the UN Security Council resolutions and in violation of the principles of the UN Charter and international law. She said Pakistan strongly condemn these moves.

Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said such events cannot hide the reality of Jammu and Kashmir being an internationally recognized dispute that has remained on the agenda of the UN Security Council for over seven decades.

She said these activities also cannot divert international community’s attention from India’s brutal suppression of the people of illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir including illegal attempts to change the demographic composition of the occupied territory.

The Spokesperson said India is again exploiting the membership of an important international grouping for advancing its self-serving agenda with its decision to host G-20 events in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. She said India has once again demonstrated that it is unable to act as a responsible member of the international community.