Illegal Cases, Fictitious Charges”: Pakistan Demands Justice for Yasin Malik

NIA’s plea for death penalty for Yasin Malik,

ISLAMABAD/Delhi(Mudasser Chuhdary/Webdesk)_ Mumtaz Zahra Spokes Person(MOFA) expressed deep concerned about National Investigation Agency’s plea for the death sentence for Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik serious concerns about his prolonged and continued imprisonment. We have condemned the illegal and fictitious cases in which he has being framed and we have also rejected the basis of awarding him death penalty.

She said, We have always expressed our concern about the Indian military presence in Indian-Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. There are already about a million strong presence of Indian forces inside Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and these forces are responsible for suppression of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

And we time and again called for a solution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute on the basis of the UN Security-Council resolutions that call for a plebiscite under the UN’s supervision and that we believe is the only solution for the future of Jammu and Kashmir. In that respect, we also believe that the measures that were taken by the Indian authorities in 2019 were illegal and the decision taken by the Indian Supreme Court to legalize their illegal steps are unacceptable.

They are illegal; they have no standing under international law and that is why Pakistan has brought this message to the international community, to the United Nations, and we believe there is only one solution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and that is what I just said that is a free and fair plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations as per the wishes of the Kashmiri people and the UNSC resolutions,

JKLF expresses concern over deteriorating health condition of Yasin Malik,

JKLF chief spokesperson, Muhammad Rafiq Dar in a statement issued in Islamabad, today, said that the health of Muhammad Yasin Malik was deteriorating speedily due to lack of his proper medical treatment in Tihar Jail. He said that the jail authorities were using delaying tactics to shift Yasin Malik to hospital for proper medical treatment despite court orders. He said that Yasin Malik stopped taking medicines as a mark of protest against the jail authorities’ inhuman approach.

He said that in addition to heart disease, Yasin Malik is suffering from kidney ailment, adding that his body weight has also dropped to a great extent, which is a great cause of concern.

Rafiq Dar said that Yasin Malk was being subjected to worst kind of political vengeance for advocating peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute. He said that after sentencing him to life imprisonment in a false case, the Indian govt is now pursuing his death sentence. However, he added, such high-handed tactics cannot force Yasin Malik to give up his rightful cause. He appealed to international human rights organizations to take notice of the plight of Yasin Malik and other jailed Hurriyat leaders and pressurize India to release them.

The JKLF chief spokesperson maintained that due to unprecedented sacrifices rendered by the people of occupied Jammu Kashmir, the complete freedom from Indian yoke has now become the destiny of the Kashmiri people.

AJK President urges Norway to resolve Kashmir dispute

Earlier,

The Delhi High Court, today, deferred the hearing on the National Investigation Agency’s plea for the death sentence for Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik.

According to Kashmir Media Service, previously sentenced to life imprisonment, Yasin Malik, faces allegations of involvement in what legal experts term as fake cases. Some observers even fear that the Modi government aims to execute the Kashmiri leader for political gains in the upcoming elections in India later this year.

It is believed that on the direction of the Modi government, the NIA insists that Yasin Malik’s case falls under Section 121 of the Indian Penal Code, warranting the death penalty for “waging war against the Indian government”.
The Delhi High Court has rescheduled the hearing to May.

Yasin Malik was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Patiala House Court in May 2022 in concocted charges