Pakistan Summons US Envoy Over Kashmir Remark

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Pakistan Summons US Diplomat Over Envoy's Remark Calling Kashmir 'Important Part of India

The Pakistan Times — Islamabad, August 19, 2026

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry summoned the US charge d'affaires in Islamabad on Wednesday to lodge a strong protest after Sergio Gor, the US Ambassador to India, described Jammu and Kashmir as an important part of India during his first visit to Srinagar.

According to Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a formal demarche was handed to the US side over Gor's remark, made while he toured Indian-administered Kashmir alongside territory's chief minister Omar Abdullah. Pakistan's position on Kashmir has remained consistent for decades, that the region is disputed territory whose final status should be settled according to relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions, not unilaterally declared by either side or endorsed by outside powers.

India, for its part, has just as consistently maintained the opposite position, that Jammu and Kashmir, along with Ladakh, is an integral and inseparable part of India, a stance New Delhi has repeated in nearly every past exchange with Pakistan over the territory. Gor's comment, coming from a sitting US ambassador rather than an Indian official, is what appears to have triggered Islamabad's particularly sharp response this time, since Washington has traditionally tried to avoid taking an explicit public position on Kashmir's disputed status.

This isn't happening in isolation either. It follows a separate protest Pakistan lodged after Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh referred to Azad Kashmir, the Pakistan-administered side of the territory, as an integral part of India during a public event, a remark Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif dismissed at the time as an attempt to deflect attention from domestic unrest in India rather than a serious policy statement. Kashmir has remained one of the most persistent flashpoints between the two nuclear-armed neighbours since partition in 1947, having triggered two of their three full-scale wars, and continues to draw sharp diplomatic reactions whenever either side, or now apparently a third country's officials, appears to tilt the narrative one way.

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Sources: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan, Arab News, Oneindia News

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