Kashmir will be resolved if Pakistan returns stolen part: EAM S Jaishankar

Listing the revocation of the special status of J&K as one of the steps taken by India to settle the Kashmir issue, foreign minister S Jaishankar said if Pakistan returns the "stolen part" of Kashmir to India, the matter would be fully resolved.
India has in the past, too, said that the only issue that needs to be resolved is Pakistan's illegal occupation of Indian territory in the UTs of J&K and Ladakh. India's position always has been that Pakistan is in illegal occupation of approximately 78,000 sq km of Indian territory in J&K.
"On Kashmir, actually we have done, I think, a good job solving most of it. Removing Article 370 was step number one, restoring growth and economic activity and social justice in Kashmir was step number two, and holding elections with a very high turnout was step number three," said Jaishankar, responding to a question during a discussion at Chatham House, an international affairs think tank.
"I think the part we are waiting for is the return of the stolen part of Kashmir, which is under illegal Pakistani occupation; when that is done, I assure you Kashmir will be solved," he added.

India's position, as also enunciated in the 1994 Parliament resolution adopted unanimously, is that the entire UTs of J&K and Ladakh have been, are and shall be an integral part of India. It has regularly called upon Pakistan to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal and forcible occupation.
In Islamabad, Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan rejected Jaishankar's remarks.