ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday condemned the framing of fabricated charges against Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik by Indian authorities and handed over a demarche to the Indian charge d’affaires.
The Indian diplomat was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over the demarche conveying Pakistan’s strong condemnation of the framing of fabricated charges against Mr Malik, who is currently imprisoned in Tihar Jail, said a statement issued by the Foreign Office.
The Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s grave concern that in a bid to suppress the voice of indigenous Kashmiri leaders, Delhi had started implicating them in fictitious and motivated cases.
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The minister was responding to questions on a range of issues when he was asked about the trial of Yasin Malik by Lord Qurban Hussain, under the heading of “Human Rights Situation in Indian-administered Kashmir”.
The statement said that neither the malevolent Indian tactics of conjuring up false charges against Kashmiri leadership nor an environment of persecution, repression and intimidation could quash the resolute struggle of the people of India-held Kashmir.
According to the FO, Pakistan asked the government of India to withdraw all baseless charges against Yasin Malik and release him immediately so that he was reunited with his family and returned to a normal life.
Pakistan urged the international community, including the United Nations and human rights and humanitarian organisations, to take immediate cognisance of the inhuman treatment meted out by India to one of the most prominent Kashmiri leaders, who has been leading a peaceful freedom struggle for the last many decades.
