Pak rejects India's efforts to portray 'normalcy' in IOK.

Islamabad -- Pakistan 'categorically rejected' on Sunday Indian government's attempts to 'portray normalcy in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir'.

A press release issued by the Foreign Office Sunday said that despite the Indian government's claims, occupied Kashmir was still under a lockdown while Kashmiri leaders remained under house arrest.

'Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir continues to be the largest prison in the world with the heaviest deployment of Indian occupation forces since the coercive, unilateral and illegal Indian actions of August 5, 2019 aimed at altering the internationally recognised disputed status of IOJ and K and changing its demographic structure to preempt the results of a UN plebiscite,' the press release read.

The Foreign Office also termed Indian reports that portrayed two farmers, who had inadvertently crossed the border in August, as terrorists as a 'farcical attempt'.

'This was despite the fact that the incident was discussed during the weekly military hotline contact between both sides on August 27, 2019 when Indian authorities acknowledged that they were inadvertent crossers and informed Pakistan that routine formalities are taking place after which they will be returned.'

On August 21, two farmers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, identified as Muhammad Nazeem, 21, and 30-year-old Khalil Ahmed, had unintentionally crossed the Line of Control near Hajipir while they were out for cutting grass.

Last month, Indian...