Pakistan slams India for arrests of Islamic scholars in IIOJK: FO

Indian forces made the arrests under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
Pakistan has demanded the release of all arrested religious scholars from India.
The detained scholars have been transferred to a jail in Hindu-majority Jammu.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday carried out arbitrary arrests and illegal detention of prominent Islamic scholars including Maulana Abdul Rasheed Dawoodi, Maulana Mushtaq Ahmad Verry, and five members of Jamaat-e-Islami in India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Condemned. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

“These reprehensible actions come just days before the United Nations General Assembly. of India Increasing interference, and total disregard for human rights and fundamental freedoms,” the ministry said.

The Foreign Office criticized India for the arrests, saying the move marked a new low in the ongoing and sustained aggression against the human rights of innocent Kashmiris by the Indian occupation forces.

The statement said, “The illegal detention of Kashmiri scholars while the real representatives of the Kashmiri people are already in Indian custody under fictitious cases and is an attempt to deprive the Kashmiri people of their distinct religious and cultural identity on false grounds.” And there is an Indian effort”. Read on

The FO condemned the detentions, adding that arrests under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA), which violates all international humanitarian law and allows preventive detention for up to two years without trial, This is a sad step forward. Indian authoritiesPlan to illegally occupy religiously important ‘Waqf Board’ properties.

The statement highlighted that the clerics have not only been arrested unjustifiably but have been transferred from Kashmir to a jail in Hindu-majority Jammu, leading to widespread protests and Unrest is spreading.

“These politically motivated arrests are clearly aimed at suppressing the voice of Muslims in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and further marginalizing them,” the FO’s statement said.

On behalf of Pakistan, the ministry has called on India to demand the immediate release of the religious scholars and all other Kashmiri prisoners illegally detained by Pakistan. India. He also urged the international community to take note of the alarmingly growing trend of Islamophobia in India, fueled by the BJP-RSS nexus, aimed at the Muslims of India. To suppress, to deprive them of the space to freely practice their faith, is to attack. Their places of worship