PTI AJK raps Indian General Rawat for threatening de-radicalization of Kashmiri youth in IOK.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday expressed grave concern about the recent statement made by Indian Chief of Defense Staff, Bipin Rawat wherein he announced that Kashmiri children will be put in concentration centers where they will be de-radicalized.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, the PTI AJK General Secretary Raja Musaadiq Khan termed it another cheap trick meant to spread fear among the people of Jammu and Kashmir. 'This step was on cards since August 5 when arbitrarily Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir statehood were downgraded to a union territory and its Article 35-A was revoked to pay the way for the settlement of the non-Kashmiri Indian into the Held Valley aimed at to change the demographic character of the Muslim majority disputed State', Khan said. He feared that these de-radicalization camps might involve confinement of the young Kashmiri boys and girls.

Mussadaq Khan called upon the international community and particularity UN Security Council to take immediate notice of this extremely hostile statement of the Indian general, by categorically taking...

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