ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan has urged India to put an end to the protracted imprisonment of the Founder and President of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Shabbir Ahmad Shah Shabbir Shah and thousands of other Kashmiri political leaders and activists whose “basic crime” is to demand their inalienable right to self-determination.
“These political prisoners must be released and acquitted of the fabricated charges against them,” said the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in her media briefing in Islamabad on Friday.
Shabbir Shah has completed six years of his continued detention this month in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
The Spokesperson said that incarcerated currently in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail, Shabbir Shah has spent 36 years in prison for his political views. The total period of his confinement exceeds half of his life, she said.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that Shabbir Ahmad was rightly called by the ‘Amnesty International’ as a “Prisoner of Conscience”.
