Islamabad, Pakistan has expressed serious concern over the grim situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the concern was raised by the Foreign Office Spokesperson, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, at her weekly news briefing in Islamabad today.

She said a few days ago, seven Kashmiri students of Kashmir University of Agriculture Science and Technology in Ganderbal district were arrested for celebrating Australia’s victory over India in the final match of the Cricket World Cup. She said the development was a clear manifestation of India’s misuse of counter-terrorism laws, and its erroneous and vicious application of terrorism charges.

She urged India to repeal its draconian laws and stop using the bogey of terrorism to suppress dissent in the occupied territory.

Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that the charges leveled by the US against an Indian national for an attempted assassination of a Sikh leader on its soil confirmed that India was involved in the extra-territorial killings. “These revelations released by the US authorities are the latest in a series of such reports that confirm the existence of a global network of Indian intelligence that is involved in espionage and extra-territorial killings,” she said.

The Spokesperson said the network had been engaged in assassinations and abductions in South Asia for decades and Pakistan had remained a target of India’s state sponsored terrorism, subversion and espionage. “We have been inviting international attention to these activities of Indian intelligence services as last year, Pakistan released a dossier with credible information on Indian involvement in the Lahore attack,” she said. “We condemn these acts and believe that India’s irresponsible and reckless conduct is a clear violation of international law and the UN principle of state sovereignty.”

The Spokesperson also reiterated Pakistan’s call for a durable and sustained ceasefire in Gaza to enable supply of extensive and robust humanitarian assistance, urgently needed medical aid to the injured and shelter to those displaced by the indiscriminate and in-humane bombing by Israeli occupation forces. She said the international community should take immediate and decisive steps to bring an end to Israeli campaign of terrorism against Palestinians.