Weather Diplomacy : India reasserts that the entire J&K belongs to the Country | IMD Forecast
WEATHER DIPLOMACY: India reasserts entire Jammu & Kashmir as IMD includes Gilgit, Baltistan in its weather forecast.
Key points:
➡️ Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has started including the Gilgit-Baltistan region in its weather forecasts.
➡️ MEA asks Pakistan to immediately vacate the illegal occupations in POK.
➡️ Pakistan’s reaction on India’s move.
➡️ The ‘weather war’ — a diplomatic move by India.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD)
It is an agency under Ministry of
Earth Sciences of the Government of India. The principal responsibility of IMD is
➡️ meteorological observations,
➡️ weather forecasting
➡️ Seismology
The official website of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has started including the Gilgit-Baltistan region in its weather forecasts. The IMD has announced weather forecasts for Gilgit-Baltistan in the North-west subdivision.
The Indian Meteorological Department forecasted weather conditions in towns such as Muzaffarabad, Skardu, Nilam regions located in Gilgit-Baltistan. This is the first time when IMD has started predicting the weather for these areas. The first such weather forecast for Gilgit was uploaded on May 6,2020.
Gilgit-Baltistan became the latest flashpoint in India and Pakistan’s strained ties earlier this week after the nation’s Supreme Court issued notices to the advocate general of Gilgit-Baltistan, directing them to amend the Gilgit-Baltistan Order-2018 and establish a caretaker government there.
India had registered a strong protest against Pakistan’s Supreme Court’s order on the ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’ area which is under illegal occupation of Pakistan. Prior to that, the Supreme court of Pakistan had permitted elections in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan.
The Ministry of External Affairs said that it was clearly conveyed that the entire Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, including the areas of Gilgit and Baltistan, are an integral part of India by virtue of its fully legal and irrevocable accession.
The MEA stated, “Govt of Pakistan or its judiciary has no locus standi on territories illegally and forcibly occupied by it. India completely rejects such actions and continued attempts to bring material changes in Pakistan occupied areas of the Indian territory of Jammu & Kashmir.”
The MEA further stated that Pakistan should immediately vacate the parts of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
Pakistan’s Reaction :
Pakistan has rejected India's move to begin broadcasting weather reports on Mirpur, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), terming it as a "legally void" action to change the status of the region.
In Brief About Gilgit-Baltistan :
Gilgit-Baltistan is part of the greater Kashmir region, which is the subject of a long-running conflict between Pakistan and India.
It borders Pakistan occupied Kashmir to the south, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north, the Xinjiang region of China, to the east and northeast, and the Indian-administered union territories Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to the southeast.
Conclusion:
The Unanimous parliamentary resolution of 1994 has reaffirmed that Gilgit–Baltistan is a “part of the State of Jammu & Kashmir, which is an integral part of India by Virtue of its accession to it in 1947.
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