ISLAMABAD, March 26: Pakistan has condemned the arrest of APHC leader Yaseen Malik by Indian authorities on trumped up charges.

A Foreign Office statement issued here on Monday said the arrest of the Kashmiri leader reflected Indian government’s disregard for the fundamental rights and liberties of the Kashmiris as well as its increasing frustration at its failure to suppress the Kashmiri freedom movement despite massive acts of state terrorism and the atrocities inflicted on the Kashmiri people by Indian occupation forces over the last 12 years.

India must know that its policies of repression and state terrorism in occupied Kashmir were bound to fail and that the Kashmiri people cannot be kept in bondage.

The Foreign Office called upon the Indian Government to adopt the path of reason and justice, to end its repression; to release the Kashmiris held in Indian prisons; to allow international humanitarian organizations and the media to work freely in Kashmir; and to resume the dialogue process with Pakistan to arrive at a settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people.—APP