Little do these leaders know that they through their highly irresponsible remarks seem to have provided India with some new ammunition to use it against Pakistan. Consider: India's minister of state for external affairs VK has reportedly told Rajya Sabha about India's position in relation to construction of six dams on the Indus river by Pakistan. Describing Azad Jammu & Kashmir as "Pakistan Occupied Kashmir", he claimed that India has made demarches to both Islamabad and Beijing "conveying that the said construction is in violation of India's sovereignty and territorial integrity".
Although it is not known that India's so-called 'demarches' move is directly or indirectly linked to the highly unacceptable remarks of leaders of G-B and AJK, they have undoubtedly hurt the sentiments of the Kashmiris as well as the Pakistanis.
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