Withdraw forces from Occupied Kashmir, Pakistan tells India.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan yesterday urged India to avoid illogical remarks about Azad Jammu and Kashmir and ensure human rights in Occupied Kashmir.

Pakistan strongly condemned Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's delusional remarks about AJK and situation in Held Kashmir. 'Pakistan strongly condemns and categorically rejects Indian Defence Minister's remarks about the situation in IOJ and K and Azad Jammu and Kashmir through a video address to 'Jammu Jan Samvad rally' on Sunday. The statement is another manifestation of the BJP government's delusions about AJK and incurable obsession with Pakistan,' said a foreign ministry statement.

Singh earlier claimed Indus will change the face of Jammu and Kashmir with its development works 'so much that people from AJK 'will demand to be part of India.'

Pakistan foreign ministry said it had been clear to the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, and the international community, from the outset, that the motive behind the RSS-inspired BJP government's illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019 was to inter alia bring about demographic changes in the IOJ and K so that the Muslim majority in the region could be changed by deceit, fraud and brute force.

'The subsequent steps of promulgation of new domicile law and amendments in various laws, especially regarding acquisition of properties in IOJ and K, clearly show that the primary motivation remains the disempowerment and disenfranchisement of the Kashmiri people and further usurpation of their rights,' it said.

The statement further said the BJP government has been seeking to 'force its decisions upon the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir through the muzzle of the gun by deploying more than 900,000 security forces in the region; a lockdown that continues for over 10 months; arbitrary detentions of thousands including political activists, civil society members, and common men, women and even disabled; snapping all means of communications; and imposing curfew-like strict measures restricting movement, assembly, peaceful political activities even religious congregations.'

Since August 2019, hundreds of innocent Kashmiris have been martyred in extrajudicial and custodial killings. The egregious human rights violations by the BJP government in IOJ and K and collective punishment of entire communities including destruction of homes and means of livelihood are well-documented by international human rights and humanitarian...