Pakistan should start counting its days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government has put their foot on the gas—to take back the illegally occupied areas of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan from Pakistan.
In a rather symbolic move, India has changed the old format of weather reporting and in doing so has issued a stern warning to the supreme leaders of Pakistan—the ISI and its poodle Imran Khan that India will stop at nothing but by taking its territory back.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has made a significant move by adding PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan in its weather forecast. Reports state that IMD has started referring its meteorological sub-division of Jammu and Kashmir as “Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Muzaffarabad”.
Muzaffarabad is part of illegal PoK while Gilgit-Baltistan is also under illegal Pakistani occupation.
Brilliant. After IMD, Doordarshan’s weather bulletin today onwards will have forecasts for Mirpur & Muzaffarabad in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir & Gilgit in Northern Areas which are illegally occupied Indian territories. Constant reminder to Imran Khan/Bajwa & Co. We are coming. 🇮🇳
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) May 8, 2020
All India Current Thunderstorm Nowcast Warning (1615 IST) pic.twitter.com/eQ9s39HjoH
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) May 6, 2020
Taking a cue from the IMD, the state-run broadcaster Doordarshan National, DD News, All India Radio and Kashmir channels will also start including weather forecasts for PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan from Friday, a powerful move designed to remind Islamabad daily, that it was holding on to these territories illegally.
The private channels will follow the suit soon, according to reports.
With effect from today, DD News & All India Radio will telecast/broadcast temperatures & weather reports of Indian towns & cities including Mirpur, Muzzafarabad & Gilgit in their prime time news bulletins. DD News 8.55am and 8.55pm. Private channels to show weather report soon.
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) May 8, 2020
The timing of this decision is another masterstroke as it comes at the heels of Pakistan Supreme Court’s decision to allow the federal government to hold elections in Gilgit-Baltistan.
While Ministry of External Affairs had lodged a “strong protest” against the decision, saying Pakistani institutions had “no locus standi on territories illegally or forcibly occupied by it”. The Union Government instead of waiting came up with the announcement that will haunt and irk the Pakistani side on a daily basis.
These developments are an indication of what’s next to come as the government goes full throttle to snatch its territory which was deceitfully captured by the terrorist state of Pakistan.
Last year Union Home Minister Amit Shah had asserted in the lower house of Parliament after the abrogation of article 370 that PoK and Aksai Chin are part of Jammu and Kashmir and thumpingly said: “we are ready to give our lives for it”.
Not many know but 24 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly are left vacant for the people of PoK. Shah later reiterated his statement at a news channel event that PoK is an integral part of India and a decision regarding its official inclusion as a part of the Union of India will be taken at a right time in the future.
It may take time to fully take back the captured territories but the Modi government has set the ball rolling and given the astonishing track record this government has in achieving the unthinkable (Read: 370, Ram Mandir, Triple Talak, demonetization), this proposition seems like a challenge that the dynamic duo of Modi and Shah will be heel bent to overcome.