Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has expressed strong condemnation over the arrest of three youth in Sopore under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA), calling it yet another example of the Indian government's oppressive policies in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

According to the media reports, APHC spokesman Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, denounced the detention of Irfan Mohiuddin Dar, Mohammad Asif Khan, and Gowhar Maqbool Rather, labeling the PSA a 'black law' used to suppress dissent and muzzle voices of resistance in the territory.

Minhas also voiced deep concern over the arrest of two other youths by India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Pahalgam. He said that Indian authorities are coercing these young detainees to make false statements in an attempt to malign the Kashmiri freedom movement and target Pakistan through fabricated narratives.