Pakistan strongly condemns India's 'continued persecution' of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned India for implicating Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik in two more 'three decades old fictitious cases in a clear attempt to politically victimise him and forcing him to observe hunger strike unto death'.

In a statement, the Foreign Office said Malik was already serving a life sentence awarded to him after a 'sham trial' by an Indian court on May 25, 2022.

'Yasin Malik is also being denied the right of personal appearance in the ongoing trial, in complete contravention of legal and democratic norms,' the FO regretted.

The statement said India had employed judiciary as a tool to damage the morale of Kashmiris by subjecting their leadership to 'flagrant prejudice'.

The FO pointed out that Malik, having been left with no legal recourse, eventually took the 'desperate decision of going on a hunger strike unto death from July 22, 2022.'

The inhuman incarceration of Malik, his sham trials under fabricated cases, his fallacious conviction and the malfeasant attempts at defiling the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiris for their right to self-determination as 'terrorism' is nothing but further corroboration of India's...