Pakistan calls for release of prisoners, lift restrictions amid COVID-19 outbreak in IOJ and K.

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said that Pakistan is deeply concerned over continued restrictions in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IoJ and K), despite so many confirmed cases and two deaths due to COVID-19.

In a statement issue by the Foreign Office she said that thousands of Kashmiri youth, members of civil society, journalists and Kashmiri leaders remain incarcerated in Indian prisons, many of them at undisclosed locations and away from their families, adding that the Indian forces continue to operate in the occupied territory with complete impunity under draconian laws such as Public Safety Act (PSA) and Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA).

The spokesperson said that senior Hurriyat leadership is under detention at homes or in different prisons. Hurriyat leaders Yasin Malik, Asia Andrabi and others are languishing in Indian jails under fake charges without a free or fair trial. Yasin Malik, already suffering from deteriorating health, has threatened an indefinite hunger strike to protest against a false...