Goa, Jan. 5 -- British MP Bob Blackman on Sunday reiterated his long-standing support for India's position on Jammu and Kashmir, saying the entire Union Territory should be reunited with India and strongly criticising Pakistan's continued control over parts of the region.

Speaking at a Hi-Tea programme at the Constitutional Club in Jaipur, the Conservative MP said his views were rooted in the events of the early 1990s - particularly the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits - and not shaped by the Indian government's 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370.

"I didn't just call for the abrogation of Article 370 back when Prime Minister Modi put it in the manifesto and implemented it. I called for this back in 1992, when the Kashmiri Pandits had been ...