Pak summons Indian ambassador over deteriorating health of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik

Pakistan summoned India’s charge d’affairs in Islamabad and handed over a demarcation expressing Islamabad’s concern over the deteriorating health condition of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik.

Yasin Malik is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in terror funding case (file photo)

Pakistan on Friday summoned India’s charge d’affaires in Islamabad to the Ministry of External Affairs and handed over a demarcation expressing Islamabad’s concern over Pakistan’s deteriorating health situation. Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik.

Malik, who is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, began an indefinite hunger strike on July 22 after the Indian government did not respond to his plea to physically present him in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Saeed kidnapping case. in which he is an accused.

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The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief was admitted to the capital’s Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Wednesday following fluctuating blood pressure.

The Foreign Office said in a statement that the Indian diplomat was briefed on Pakistan’s deep disappointment over the latest move by Indian officials in “two more fake cases fabricated around events that happened at least three decades ago” to Malik. .

“A letter addressed to the Indian Prime Minister on behalf of Ms. Mushal Hussain Malik, wife of Yasin Malik, seeking immediate release from prison in view of the precarious health condition of her husband, who went on hunger-strike earlier this month After his decision to leave, CD’A was also handed over,” it said.

A Delhi court in May sentenced Malik, one of Jammu and Kashmir’s most prominent separatist leaders, to life imprisonment, saying the offenses were intended to strike at the “heart of the idea of ​​India” and forcefully secede Jammu and Kashmir. . from the Union of India.

Considering the urgency of the situation and the rapidly deteriorating health indicators of Malik, the Government of India has urged the Government of India to provide him immediate medical care, release him from prison immediately, revoke his “misleading” sentence and all other charges against him. The cases have been requested to be withdrawn. , said a statement from the Foreign Office.

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