India, July 27 -- Pakistan's Punjab province has sent 14,000 police personnel, 30 per cent of them carrying weapons, to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for security duty ahead of elections in the region, an official said Sunday.

Elections for 45 contesting seats of the so-called legislative assembly of PoK are to be held in three phases from Monday to August 10.

India maintains that the entire Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh are integral and inalienable parts of it. New Delhi also asserts that Pakistan has been in "illegal and forcible occupation" of parts of these Union Territories.

"The Punjab government has sent 14,000 personnel of Punjab policemen for Kashmir poll security duty on the request of the Kashmir Governme...