Propaganda won't help India camouflage Kashmir's truth: FO.

Islamabad -- The Foreign Office (FO) observed on Thursday that India cannot wash away the truth about Kashmir through peddling fake news and running its propaganda machinery faster.

During the weekly press briefing, FO Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said that today (July 3) marks the 332nd day of the continued brutalisation of innocent people of the Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOKJ) - images of which were flashed across the world yesterday, depicting the level of callousness and inhumanity meted out by the Indian occupation forces.

'The heart-wrenching picture of the three-year-old boy in Sopore will forever remain seared in the imagination of all those who believe in humanity, human rights and fundamental freedoms,' the spokesperson stated. She further maintained that ceasefire violations by Indian security forces continue unabated on the Line of Control (LOC).

'As a result of recent violations and mortar and artillery shelling on the LoC in Kayani and Jura sectors of the LoC, on 29th and 30th June 2020, 16-year-old Muhammad Tauheed resident of Talwari village embraced shahadat; and two-yea- old Azad Ahmed, six-year-old Aneesa Waqas, 28- year-old Siraj Din, son of Nizam Din, 16-year-old Sarmad Akram and 42-year-old Abdul Qayyum sustained serious injuries.'

She added that in the first six months of 2020, 1,546 ceasefire violations have occurred, resulting in the martyrdom of 14 and serious injuries to 114 innocent civilians. Farooqui added that Pakistan had categorically rejected the grant of domicile certificates in IOJ and K by the Indian authorities to reportedly 25,000 Indian nationals.

'The Kashmiri people have also rejected the bogus domicile certificates,' she said, 'The certificates issued to non-Kashmiris including, among others, Indian government officials under the 'Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure), 2020' are...

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