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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today (Monday) has expressed deep concern over the continued incarceration and deteriorating health conditions of Kashmiri leaders.
“Kashmiri leaders have been illegally arrested over malicious, false and fabricated charges by the Indian Government through invoking draconian laws promulgated in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir (IIOK),” Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said.
The leaders include the “Iron Lady of Kashmir”, Asiya Andrabi; founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Shabbir Ahmed Shah and prominent leaders such as Yasin Malik, Masarat Alam Bhat, Mohammad Ashraf Sehraie and others.
The FO Spokesperson said, “These leaders have been languishing under squalid conditions in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in infamous Tihar and other jails.” Meanwhile, many other senior Kashmiri leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq remain under house arrest.
He further said that the imprisonment and torturing of Kashmiri leaders on the basis of their political ideology and struggle against illegal Indian occupation is a true reflection of the extremist mindset of the RSS-BJP regime.
“Pakistan calls upon the international community, particularly the United Nations, to take notice of the Indian government’s inhuman treatment of the Kashmiri leaders and raise its voice for their immediate release from illegal Indian detention,” he concluded.