ISLAMABAD
\nPakistan on Friday asked the Indian government to immediately investigate the custodial death of Kashmiri leader Altaf Ahmed Shah and hold to account all those responsible for the tragedy.
\nSpeaking at the weekly press briefing in Islamabad, the foreign office spokesperson said: \u201cWe are deeply saddened at the inhuman custodial death of Hurriyat leader Altaf Ahmed Shah, who remained imprisoned in the infamous Tihar Jail for the last five years.\u201d
\nThe Indian Charge d\u2019 Affaires in Islamabad was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conveyed Pakistan\u2019s strong protest over the death of Shah caused by the Indian government\u2019s willful and deliberate negligence, and utter disregard for human rights, which was part of India\u2019s systematic campaign to suppress and brutalise the Hurriyat leaders and the Kashmiris, he added.
\nHe said that Pakistan strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of two more Kashmiris in fresh acts of state-sponsored terrorism by Indian occupation forces in India Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
\nThe latest incidents of violence and hostility perpetrated by Hindutva extremists against Muslims in India, during the recent Hindu festivals were a matter of grave concern, the spokesperson noted.
\n\u201cThis is yet another manifestation of the growing \u2018saffron terror\u2019 that has deeply permeated the Indian society.\u201d
\n\u201cWe call upon the international community to hold India accountable for its crimes against humanity in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and to take cognisance of the rapidly deteriorating situation of Islamophobia in India and the resultant threat to the safety and security and well-being of its Muslim citizens and other minorities,\u201d the spokesperson added.
\nHe said that the Pakistan government rejected the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s remarks about IIOJK during a public rally in Gujarat.
\n\u201cThe Indian prime minister\u2019s farcical contention that he has, somehow, \u2018resolved the Kashmir issue\u2019 is not only false and misleading but also reflects how oblivious the Indian leadership has become of the ground realities in IIOJK.\u201d
\nHe pointed out that Jammu and Kashmir was an internationally recognised dispute that had been on the agenda of the United Nations for over seven decades awaiting a just and peaceful resolution in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions and wishes of the Kashmiri people.
\nHe said that Pakistan-China Spokespersons\u2019 Dialogue was held virtually on October 10.
\nIt was an occasion to exchange views on strengthening cooperation in the domains of media and public diplomacy to project the strategic partnership, shared objectives, and people-to-people linkages,\u201d he added.
\nA group of UN Disarmament Fellows comprising officers from 24 countries visited Pakistan from October 8-10 as part of the international study tour under the auspices of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNoDA).
\nThey visited various institutions and state-of-the-art facilities, and were also briefed at the foreign office, he informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Friday asked the Indian government to immediately investigate the custodial death of Kashmiri leader Altaf Ahmed Shah and hold to account all those responsible for the tragedy. Speaking at the weekly press briefing in Islamabad, the foreign office spokesperson said: \u201cWe are deeply saddened at the inhuman custodial death of Hurriyat leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[225,195,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-289548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-asim-iftikhar","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-pakistan"},"yoast_head":"\n