Pakistan slams arrest of Islamic scholars in IIOJK.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan strongly conAdemned yesterday the arbitrary arrests and ilAlegal detention of promiAnent Islamic scholars, inAcluding Maulana Abdul Rasheed Dawoodi, MauAlana Mushtaq Ahmed Veeri and five members of Jamaat-e-Islami, in Indian Illegally OccuApied Jammu and KashAmir (IIOJK).

These deplorable acAtions only days ahead of the UN General Assembly session manifest India's growing intransigence, and utter disregard of human rights and funAdamental freedoms, said the foreign ministry in a statement. These arrests have marked a new low in the Indian occupation forces' blatant and continAued onslaught on the human rights of the innocent KashAmiris. The illegal detention of the Kashmiri Islamic scholAars, while the true represenAtatives of the Kashmiri...