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I read a sentence in "The Hindu" which was:

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar is in Pakistan, and asked India to give “solid inalienable evidence” for action to be taken against him

"Inalienable" means - (of a right) impossible to take away or give up

But does that fit here or should there be "irrefutable" instead?

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  • People who think themselves important often use grand words without knowing their meanings. Often, their speeches are written by underlings.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Mar 3, 2019 at 13:29
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    I think this is most likely a mistranslation. Alienate and refute share the sense of "cancelling" or "abrogating" an existing situation, so it is very easy to imagine that a single word in the FM's native tongue might embrace both meanings in different contexts.
    – StoneyB on hiatus
    Commented Mar 3, 2019 at 14:36

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I think "inalienable" is simply a mistake. I cannot see any relevant meaning, and "inalienable evidence" gets no hits in any of the corpora I've looked in, or in Google ngrams.

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