Pakistan strongly condemns India’s continued persecution of Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik

Islamabad: Pakistan Friday strongly condemned India’s continued persecution of Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik forcing him to announce hunger strike unto death.

In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad condemned India’s recent move of implicating Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik in two more fictitious cases, which have been crafted around incidents that took place more than thirty years ago.

He said cases have been reopened under the draconian Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act in a clear attempt to perpetuate Yasin Malik’s political victimization.

The Spokesperson said Pakistan urges the Indian government to refrain from victimizing the true representatives of the Kashmiri people by way of inhuman detentions and implication in baseless cases.

He said India must release all political prisoners detained on trumped-up charges, stop human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and lift the brutal military siege.

He said Pakistan also calls on the international community to take cognizance of India’s inhuman and illegal detention and treatment of Yasin Malik and ensure that the Kashmiris are given the opportunity to exercise their right to self-determination as espoused under the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and as per their own wishes.