FO urges world to hold India accountable for illegal actions.

ISLAMABAD -- The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday condemned 'fake encounters' by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir and urged the world to hold Delhi accountable for its 'illegal actions'.

Speaking at the weekly televised briefing, FO spokesperson Aisha Farooqui, without naming Naikoo, said the internet has again been shut down in the occupied valley after a 'local Kashmiri resistance fighter' was slain in an encounter with Indian security forces and pellet guns and live bullets were fired on protesters, causing the death of another 'innocent Kashmiri' and wounding of several others.

These Indian actions are highly condemnable, she said.

Riyaz Naikoo, a Kashmiri fighter, was killed by Indian forces in Pulwama district along with one of his associates. He had succeeded Burhan Wani, who was killed in 2016, as the commander of banned Hizbul Mujahideen group. The incident happened after eight security forces personnel were killed in two incidents in Handwara.

Naikoo's killing sparked protests in various parts of the occupied valley.

The spokesperson said Pakistan strongly condemns the ongoing state terrorism and extrajudicial killings of innocent Kashmiris in so-called 'cordon-and-search' operations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In an 'inhuman practice', she said, the remains of the fighters were not being returned to their families.

Twenty-nine Kashmiris were killed last month by the occupation forces in the valley, several others lost their lives because of excessive use of force by troops there since the start of May.

She recalled that 277 days have passed since the forcible annexation of the valley last August. The disputed region has endured heightened oppression, inhuman lockdown and military siege since then. The rights abuses, she said, have continued relentlessly...

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