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Interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has penned letters to the leadership of the United Nations, European Union and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on the \u201cillegality\u201d of the Indian Supreme Court verdict<\/a> on the status of held Kashmir, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Saturday.<\/p>\n On Monday, India\u2019s Supreme Court had ruled in a unanimous verdict that the special status of held Kashmir was a temporary provision and upheld an order abrogating Article 370 in the constitution. It had also directed the election commission to hold elections in held Kashmir by September 30, 2024.<\/p>\n In August 2019, India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had revoked occupied Kashmir\u2019s special status<\/a> by repealing Article 370 of the constitution. The law had limited the power of the Indian parliament to impose laws in the state, apart from matters of defence, foreign affairs and communications.<\/p>\n The move allowed people from the rest of the country to have the right to acquire property in held Kashmir and settle there permanently.<\/p>\n Kashmiris, international organisations and critics of India\u2019s Hindu nationalist-led government had termed the move an attempt to dilute the demographics of Muslim-majority Kashmir with Hindu settlers.<\/p>\n A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud had begun hearing<\/a> the set of petitions challenging the reading down of Article 370 of the Indian constitution on July 11 and reserved its verdict<\/a> on September 5.<\/p>\n FM Jilani had \u201ccategorically\u201d rejected the verdict and said he would write to international organisations to \u201capprise them of the futility\u201d of the ruling.<\/p>\n According to a press release issued today from the FO, the foreign minister emphasised in his letters that under international law, domestic legislation and judicial verdicts could not be invoked to determine the final status of an internationally recognised disputed territory.<\/p>\n \u201cThe foreign minister has condemned the unlawful measures of the Indian authorities to consolidate their occupation of IIOJK (Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir) and persistent suppression of the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. India\u2019s illegal and unilateral actions of August 5 2019, and a series of subsequent steps, are aimed at altering the demographic structure and political landscape of IIOJK. The clear goal of these unlawful steps is to convert Kashmiris into a disempowered community in their own land.<\/p>\n \u201cFM Jilani has termed the recent judgement of the Supreme Court of India, a breach of international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, especially Resolution 122 (1957). This endorsement of India\u2019s unlawful measures cannot override the provisions and prescriptions of the UN Security Council as contained in its resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d the FO said.<\/p>\n It added that FM Jilani called on the UNSC to ensure full implementation of its resolutions on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and to urge India to end the \u201cgrave and systematic human rights violations in IIOJK and to reverse all its illegal and unilateral actions in IIOJK undertaken since August 5, 2019\u201d.<\/p>\n