{"id":498603,"date":"2024-01-13T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=498603"},"modified":"2024-01-13T18:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:26:52","slug":"india-pok-british-high-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/india-pok-british-high-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"India protests against visit of British High Commissioner in Pakistan to PoK: MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India has protested against the visit of British High Commissioner, Jane Marriott, along with a UK Foreign official in Pakistan\u2019s Islamabad to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) on January 10. \u00a0The Government of India has called this, a highly objectionable visit, and unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday issued an official statement condemning the visit. The MEA said such infringement of India\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity is unacceptable, adding that, the Foreign Secretary has lodged a strong protest with the British High Commissioner in India on this infringement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are, have been and shall always remain an integral part of India, the MEA said in an official statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">India protests visit of British High Commissioner in Islamabad to Pakistan occupied Kashmir:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vd4WqODznI\">https:\/\/t.co\/vd4WqODznI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sYwkMUjAkr\">pic.twitter.com\/sYwkMUjAkr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEAIndia\/status\/1746112360648237221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Jane Marriott recently shared images from her visit to Mirpur in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to X, she said Salaam from Mirpur, the heart of the UK and Pakistan\u2019s people-to-people ties. 70 per cent of British-Pakistani roots are from Mirpur, making our work together crucial for diaspora interests, the diplomat further said. She thanked Pakistan for its hospitality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Salaam from Mirpur, the heart of the UK and Pakistan\u2019s people to people ties! 70% of British Pakistani roots are from Mirpur, making our work together crucial for diaspora interests. Thank you for your hospitality! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3LyNFQan9H\">pic.twitter.com\/3LyNFQan9H<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jane Marriott (@JaneMarriottUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaneMarriottUK\/status\/1745078793989956042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People in India were up in arms and some described her visit as shameful, while some felt it could be her personal decision and not that of pro-Hindu British PM Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October of last year, India criticized the US envoy to Pakistan, Donald Blome, for touring Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Recently, pictures of the US envoy interacting with locals in PoK&#8217;s Gilgit-Baltistan caused concern in India as the region is considered by India to be a part of its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US envoy&#8217;s six-day visit was kept under wraps which caused more frustration. However, the US embassy in Islamabad later tweeted about the envoy&#8217;s engagements in the region. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi expressed objections regarding the US envoy&#8217;s visit and meetings in PoK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MEA said such infringement of India\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity is unacceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":498606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"India protest against visit of British High Commissioner in Pakistan to PoK: MEA","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[157494,42,8813],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/01\/13165105\/India-and-POK-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498603"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=498603"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=498603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->