India will achieve its goals ‘when it reaches Gilgit-Balistan’: Rajnath Singh
India’s goal is to reclaim areas such as Gilgit and Baltistan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in accordance with a resolution passed unanimously in Parliament in 1994, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Thursday, reasserting a long-held pitch that these places are “under illegal occupation of Pakistan”.
He also called out Islamabad for atrocities committed in the occupied territories.
“We have just begun our journey of development in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. We will achieve our goal when we reach Gilgit and Baltistan,” Singh said while speaking at the Shaurya Diwas or Infantry Day celebrations to commemorate the air-landing of Indian soldiers at Budgam airstrip in Srinagar on October 27, 1947.