India's foreign minister said on Tuesday that the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan belongs to India and that he expected India to gain physical control over it one day, raising the rhetoric over the territorial dispute.

India and Pakistan both rule parts of Kashmir while claiming it in full. They have fought two wars over the region and their forces regularly trade fire across the control of the land.

"Our position on PoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) is, has always been and will always be very clear. PoK is part of India and we expect one day that we will have the jurisdiction, physical jurisdiction over it," Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told a news conference.

Pakistan described India's move in Kashmir as "illegal military occupation" which may raise the specter of "genocide," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the UN Human Rights Council last Tuesday.

"The forlorn, traumatized towns, mountains, plains and valleys of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir reverberate today, with the grim reminders of Rwanda, Srebrenica, the Rohingya, and the pogrom of Gujarat," Qureshi said.

"The people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir are apprehending the worst... I shudder to mention the word genocide here, but I must... The Kashmiri people in the occupied territory – as a national, ethnic, racial and religious group of people – face grave threats to their lives, way of living and livelihoods from a murderous, misogynistic and xenophobic regime."

Last month, New Delhi abrogated the special status of Muslim-majority Kashmir in its part in a bid to integrate the territory fully into India, a move that has prompted protests and anger in Kashmir and Pakistan.

(With input from Reuters)

(Cover: Indian government forces stand alert amid curfew like restrictions in the old city, after Indian authorities revoked Article 370 and Article 35A in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, August 17, 2019. /VCG Photo)