ISLAMABAD, 19 October 2021, (TON): Pakistan strongly condemned the continuing extrajudicial killings in staged encounters and fake cordon-and-search operations, as well as arbitrary detentions and crimes against humanity by Indian occupation forces in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said that the deteriorating security and human rights situation in the occupied territory is a "matter of grave concern for the international community".

He said "we also strongly condemn India's ongoing propaganda to malign the indigenous and just struggle of the people of IIOJK for their right to self-determination, by raising the bogey of ‘terrorism’.”

The spokesperson said that Pakistan has also been alerting the world community about India’s track record of orchestrating false-flag operations to undermine the Kashmir freedom movement.

Equally condemnable, he said, is the RSS-BJP combine's ploy to demonise Kashmiri Muslims, by stirring up communal tensions.

He said "Pakistan calls on India to halt its state-sponsored terrorism, refrain from propaganda against Kashmiris, lift its suffocating military siege and let the people of IIOJK exercise their right to self-determination as promised in various UN Security Council resolutions.”

The Muslim-majority region has been on the edge since the killing of three Hindus and a Sikh last week which triggered a crackdown by Indian authorities.