'Every party committed to bringing back PoK': Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that every political party is committed to returning Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to India.

Delivering an address at Gargi College on Vishwa Bandhu Bharat in Delhi on April 8, the foreign minister said that expectations for reclaiming the PoK surged after the BJP government revoked Article 370. 

"All I can say with respect to PoK, there is a parliament resolution, and every political party in the country is committed to ensuring that the PoK which is part of India returns to India…” he said. 

“But I do want to say one thing, I didn’t used to get people to ask us this 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. It is when we put 370 to rest, now people understand PoK is also important.”

“People just assumed that 370 (Article) can not be changed and this is something that we have to accept. Now once we change it, the entire ground situation changes.”

The comments come days after Jaishankar on Sunday said that “PoK has never been out of this country". 

While responding to a question during an event in Cuttack in Odisha, he said that PoK "is part of this country. There is a resolution of the Indian Parliament that PoK is very much a part of India.”