Pakistan has condemned the conviction of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik by a Delhi court in a case associated to funding of terror actions in Jammu and Kashmir, after he pleaded responsible to all fees framed in opposition to him.

Malik, a Hurriyat chief and chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was convicted on May 19 by Delhi High Court, in a terror funding case courting again to 2017. He is at the moment lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.

“Hurriyat leader Mr. Yasin Malik has been convicted today in a manifestly dubious and motivated case, dating back to 2017, filed against him by the National Investigation Agency,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office mentioned on Thursday.

“Predictably, the one-sided case has not only convicted Mr. Yasin Malik on fictitious charges in defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, but also attempted to make conjectural insinuations about Pakistan,” it added.

On Wednesday, Pakistan summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires in Islamabad to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche to him conveying Islamabad’s sturdy condemnation of the framing of “fabricated charges” in opposition to Malik.

Malik lately pleaded responsible to all fees, together with these below the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, earlier than a Delhi courtroom in a case associated to alleged terrorism and secessionist actions that disturbed the Kashmir Valley in 2017.

India has repeatedly instructed Pakistan that Jammu and Kashmir “was, is and shall forever” stay an integral a part of the nation. It additionally suggested Pakistan to simply accept the fact and cease all anti-India propaganda. New Delhi has additionally instructed Pakistan that it needs regular neighbourly relations with Islamabad in an setting freed from terror, hostility and violence.