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ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has strongly denounced Indian propaganda to malign the Kashmiris’ struggle for their just right to self-determination by raising the “bogey of terrorism”.
FO spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said in a statement that Pakistan also condemns extrajudicial killings in staged encounters and fake cordon and search operations by Indian occupation forces in the occupied valley.
“The deteriorating security and human rights situation in the occupied territory is a matter of grave concern for the international community,” the FO spokesperson said.
“Pakistan has also been alerting the international community about India’s track record of orchestrating false-flag operations to undermine the Kashmir freedom movement.
“Equally condemnable is the RSS-BJP combine’s ploy to demonise Kashmiri Muslims, by stirring up communal tensions,” he said.
The FO spokesperson called on India to halt its state-sponsored terrorism, refrain from propaganda against Kashmiris, lift its “suffocating military siege” and let the people of occupied Kashmir exercise their right to self-determination as promised in various United Nations Security Council resolutions.
The statement comes amid a surge in violence in occupied Kashmir in recent weeks, including a spate of attacks on civilians and a widespread crackdown by security forces, has left 33 people dead in the heavily militarised region since early October.
