No reason to comment on Pakistan's frustration: MEA on Islamabad summoning US Charge d'Affaires in Islamabad

New Delhi, India on Friday took pot shot at Pakistan for summoning the top US diplomat in Islamabad over comments by US Ambassador to New Delhi Sergio Gor affirming that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.

"I see no reason to comment on Pakistan's frustration," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.

Gor, during his visit to Jammu and Kashmir, said on Wednesday that the Union territory is an important part of India.


Hours after his remarks, Pakistan's Foreign Office summoned the US Charge d'Affaires in Islamabad and lodged a "strong demarche" over the comments made by Gor, who is also the Trump administration's Special Envoy to South and Central Asia.

"Pakistan strongly condemned and categorically rejected the characterisation of Jammu and Kashmir as a 'part of India'," the Pakistan Foreign Office said in a statement.

Jaiswal also asserted that the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India.

He also responded to a question on India's tit-for-tat action in removing some unauthorised structures outside the Pakistan high commission in the national capital.

India's action came after Pakistan removed parking poles outside the Indian mission in Islamabad this week.

"Certain structures there (outside Indian high commission in Islamabad) were removed, despite our request. Once it happened, we took what could be described as a proportional action-- we removed some temporary structures located in the lane outside the Pakistani High Commission here (in Delhi)," Jaiswal said.

Pakistani authorities had removed security barricades and parking poles outside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

The action by Pakistani authorities and subsequent demolition of the unauthorised structures by Indian agencies came amid a deep freeze in the relations between the two countries.

The ties between the two sides hit rock bottom following India's Operation Sindoor targeting terrorist infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied territories.