Pakistan on Monday, expressed serious concerns over worsening health conditions of various Kashmiri leaders in illegal Indian custody.
In a statement, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has conveyed Pakistan’s concerns over the continued incarceration and deteriorating health conditions of Kashmiri leaders.
Pakistan has condemned illegal incarceration of ‘Iron Lady of Kashmir’ Ms Asiya Andrabi who is also founding leader of Kashmiri organization “Dukhtaran-i-Millat”, and leader and founder of the Jammu & Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Mr Shabbir Ahmed Shah.
The statement also denounced illegal detention of other Kashmiri leaders including Yasin Malik, Masarat Alam Bhat, Mohammad Ashraf Sehraie and various other leaders who have been languishing under squalid conditions in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in infamous Tihar and other jails.
“These 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 Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK),” read the MoFA press-release.
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 which has no respect for the human rights of the Kashmiri people, it added.
Meanwhile, senior Kashmiri leaders such as Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq are currently illegal house arrest by Indian forces.
Pakistan has urged UN, ICRC and other international human rights organizations to take notice of the Indian government’s inhuman treatment of the Kashmiri leaders and play their due role for immediate release of Kashmiri leaders from illegal Indian detention.
