India threatening peace in South Asia: FO.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan on Tuesday said India was threatening peace and urged the world to take notice of the Indian aggression. A Foreign Ministry statement calls upon the international community to take cognisance of the threat to peace and stability in South Asia posed by India's irresponsible rhetoric and belligerent posture.

'The world must act to restrain India before the reckless policies of this ideologically-driven RSS-BJP dispensation cause grievous harm to regional peace and security,' it said. The people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir had been suffering under inhuman lockdown and military siege for over nine months, following India's illegal and unilateral actions of August 2019.

'The entire region has been turned into a prison, with unprecedented restrictions which continue despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,' the statement said.

Throughout this period, every single right of the Kashmiri people has been trampled upon by the Indian occupation forces acting with complete impunity under draconian laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Public Safety Act and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, it said.

'Pakistan has been assiduously highlighting at all international fora the gross and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Kashmiri people.

We have also consistently sensitised the world community about the consequences of India's brutalisation of the Kashmiris and the imminence of their resistance to the cruel and inhuman treatment being meted out to them by the Indian occupation forces, day in and day out,' the statement said.

The recent incidents in held Kashmir, it said, were reflective of the inescapable reality that India's brutal campaign of violence and repression is meeting its logical...