FO condemns Indian general's remarks on sending Kashmiri children to 'deradicalisation camps'.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while condemning on Friday the 'highly irresponsible remarks' made by Indian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, termed them 'the usual Indian bogey of terrorism'.

According to a statement by the Foreign Office, the top Indian general had suggested putting young Kashmiri children in 'de-radicalisation camps' and sought to place Pakistan on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist.

'These remarks are reflective of the extremist mindset and bankrupt thinking that have evidently also permeated the state institutions of India,' said the FO spokesperson in a statement.

The statement, which referred to Gen Rawat's remarks at the Raisina Dialogue 2020, added that as a perpetrator of 'unabated state-terrorism in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOK)', India is in no position to pontificate on the issue of terrorism.

'The IOK has already been turned into the world's largest prison camp with 8 million Kashmiris incarcerated there since August, 5, 2019. With over 900,000 Indian occupation forces perpetrating egregious violations of human rights, draconian laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA) enabling them...