India's Blunt Message to Pakistan: A Rejection of Fictional Territory Claims The Ministry of External Affairs' latest rebuke of Islamabad's claims to Indian territory is a long overdue dose of reality in a region plagued by fiction masquerading as fact.
The MEA's dismissal of the so called Pakistan China Boundary Joint Commission and its assertion that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh remain integral parts of India are rooted in a fundamental understanding that international law recognizes only bilateral agreements between states.
The 1963 China Pakistan Boundary Agreement, Islamabad often cites as justification for its claims, is precisely the kind of fictional arrangement India has consistently rejected.