Pak summons Indian envoy over deteriorating well being of Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik
Pakistan summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires in Islamabad and handed over a demarche conveying Islamabad’s concern over the deteriorating well being situation of Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik.
Yasin Malik is presently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in a terror funding case (File Photo)
Pakistan on Friday summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires in Islamabad to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche conveying Islamabad’s concern over the deteriorating well being situation of Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik.
Malik, who’s lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail, started an indefinite starvation strike on July 22 after the Indian authorities didn’t reply to his plea that he be allowed to bodily seem in a Jammu court docket listening to the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case, by which he’s an accused.
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The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief was admitted to the capital’s Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital earlier on Wednesday following a fluctuation in his blood stress.
The Indian diplomat was instructed about Pakistan’s deep dismay over the Indian authorities’ newest transfer of implicating Malik in “two more bogus cases crafted around incidents that happened at least three decades ago,” the Foreign Office stated in a press release.
“A letter addressed to the Indian Prime Minister from Ms Mushaal Hussein Mullick, wife of Yasin Malik, seeking her husband’s immediate release from prison in view of his precarious health condition that aggravated after his decision to go on a hunger-strike earlier this month, was also handed over to the Cd’A,” it stated.
A Delhi court docket in May handed out a life sentence to sentenced Malik, one of many foremost separatist leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the crimes have been meant to strike on the “heart of the idea of India” and meant to forcefully secede Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India.
Given the urgency of the scenario and preserving in view Malik’s sharply deteriorating well being indicators, the federal government of India has been strongly urged to offer him pressing medical care, instantly launch him from jail, cancel his “fallacious” conviction and withdraw all different circumstances in opposition to him, the Foreign Office assertion stated.
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