India plotting to shift blame on Pakistan for renewed Kashmir uprising: Masood.

ISLAMABAD -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Indian occupation forces and intelligence agencies were hatching a plot against Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Taking advantage of the world's focus on COVID-19 and diversion of attention from the ongoing genocide in Kashmir the occupation authorities had intensified killing of Kashmiri youth and escalated the situation along the Line of Control, he said in a statement issued by the AJK Presidential Secretariat

The AJK president said in the past month, they (occupation forces) had killed more than 40 young men in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) in staged encounters. 'These are all extrajudicial killings and crimes against humanity', said Masood Khan.

He said the occupation authorities, however, did not expect two reactions to their murderous campaign in the occupied territory. First, the Kashmiris, despite being under a nine-month old siege and COVID-19 lockdown came out in large numbers to openly protest against the Indian repression and scorched earth policy. 'The uprising is reminiscent of the mass protests and boycotts by Kashmiris after the martyrdom of Burhan Wani in 2016,' he said.

Second, he said, the international media once again was shining a spotlight on Indian atrocities and killings.

Unable to handle the two unforeseen developments, he said, the Indian army and intelligence high command had decided to shift blame to Pakistan by weaving weak suspicious stories that Pakistan was creating and funding new entities to fight the Indian occupation apparatus.

'They know that the resistance is 100% indigenous', he said, adding in addition to frequently violating the ceasefire along the LoC, the Indian intelligence hierarchy was making preparations for a false-flag operation, and wargaming to target different parts of Pakistan through proxy wars.

'The Indian occupiers have started to play the victim once again. Pakistan should prepare to counter different forms of aggression by India that it is poised to unleash against Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. This includes sabotage, espionage and propaganda,' he said.

Sardar Masood said until recently the Indian authorities used to quote a figure of 230 indigenous 'militants'. Now they reported a spike...