{"id":87976,"date":"2019-08-21T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9348"},"modified":"2019-08-21T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T12:00:42","slug":"why-new-delhi-is-turning-up-the-heat-on-pok-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-new-delhi-is-turning-up-the-heat-on-pok-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why New Delhi is turning up the heat on PoK now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  1. India\u2019s Defence Minister had said that if bilateral talks between India and Pakistan were to happen,it will be on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(POK).<\/li>
  2. This statement shows shifts in India\u2019s position on J&K from offensive to defensive policy.It will also put China on alert as it seeks to push ahead with its plan for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC) which passes through POK.<\/li>
  3. Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(PoK) <\/strong>is that part of Jammu and Kashmir which was invaded by Pakistan in 1947.<\/li>
  4. The region is divided into two parts namely the (a)Azad Jammu and Kashmir(AJK) and (b)Gilgit-Baltistan.Pakistan ceded a part of PoK, called the Trans Karakoram Tract to China in 1963.<\/li>
  5. AJK has its own constitution,a prime minister and a president although real power is vested with Pakistan.However,the administration of Gilgit-Baltistan was handed over to Pakistan by AJK in 1949.<\/li>
  6. PoK is of immense strategic importance because of its location.It shares borders with Pakistan to the west, Afghanistan in the north-west, China to the north and India\u2019s Jammu and Kashmir to the east.<\/li>
  7. India\u2019s position has been that since the king of J&K had signed the instrument of accession with India,the whole of J&K including PoK is legitimately an essential part of India.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    India\u2019s Defence Minister had said that if bilateral talks between India and Pakistan were to happen,it will be on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(POK). This statement shows shifts in India\u2019s position on J&K from offensive to defensive policy.It will also put China on alert as it seeks to push ahead with its plan for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC)… Continue reading Why New Delhi is turning up the heat on PoK now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[42,2454,5702],"class_list":["post-87976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-india","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-occupied-kashmir","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774411,"cached_date":1704667356},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}