Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires right here to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche to him conveying Islamabad’s robust condemnation of the framing of “fabricated charges” towards Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik.
The Pakistan Foreign Office, in a late-night assertion on Wednesday, stated that Kashmiri Hurriyat chief Malik is presently imprisoned in Delhi’s Tihar jail.
“The Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s grave concern that in a bid to suppress the voice of the indigenous Kashmiri leadership, the Indian government has resorted to implicating them in fictitious and motivated cases,” it stated.
The Indian aspect was additionally conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over Malik’s incarceration in Tihar Jail since 2019 below “inhuman conditions”, it stated.
Pakistan calls upon the Government of India for acquittal of Malik from all “baseless” prices and instant launch from jail in order that he may be reunited together with his household, recuperate his well being and return to regular life, the Foreign Office stated.
Malik lately pleaded responsible to all the fees, together with these below the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), earlier than a Delhi courtroom in a case associated to alleged terrorism and secessionist actions that disturbed the Kashmir Valley in 2017.
India has repeatedly advised Pakistan that Jammu and Kashmir “was, is and shall forever” stay an integral a part of the nation. It additionally suggested Pakistan to simply accept the truth and cease all anti-India propaganda.
