Mainstream WeeklyIndian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar stated at Chatham House, London, on March 6 that the only outstanding issue with Pakistan in reference to Jammu and Kashmir was Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and would be solved the day that part of Kashmir was re-occupied by India.
Jaishankar must have chuckled when he said this because he was replying to a question on Kashmir raised by some Pakistani journalist in London, asking about the Indo-Pak dispute over Kashmir lasting all the 78 years since Indian independence and the simultaneous birth of Pakistan on our western borders.
This is not the first time an Indian leader has laid claim to PoK, specially since Modi-led BJP government came to rule India since 2014.
Pre-delimitation the state of Jammu and Kashmir had 111 seats of which 46 were from the Kashmir valley, the largest part of J&K, 37 from Jammu a comparatively smaller part with predominant Hindu population, and four in Ladakh, with a large complement of Buddhist population plus, 24 seats reserved for Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
In August 2019, the Modi government with a wave of the hand struck away Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and did the unparalleled in Independent India