Lodhi apprises UN official of India's false claims of hitting camps in AJK.

A senior Pakistani diplomat told a top United Nation official that India's 'false and malevolent' claims of having destroyed the so-called camps across the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Kashmir were proved to be lies when Pakistan took Islamabad-based foreign diplomats to the site in question on Monday.

'This is patent falsehood,' Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said of the Indian claims at a meeting with the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, during which the UN official was also updated on the grave situation in Indian occupied Kashmir that poses a threat to regional peace and security, according to official sources.

The Pakistani envoy, according to the sources, said that the Indian High Commission in Islamabad was also formally invited to join the trip, but they did not take up the offer, sensing that their claims would be exposed.

Briefing Ms. DiCarlo, Ambassador Lodhi said that India's illegal annexation of the state of occupied Kashmir on Aug. 5 had triggered multiple crises in the region and...

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