Pakistan has strongly condemned the sentencing of Kashmiri leader Asiya Andrabi and two other women activists by an Indian court, terming the move a “grave miscarriage of justice and part of a broader crackdown on dissent.”
In a statement, the Foreign Office categorically rejected the life imprisonment awarded to prominent Andrabi, along with 30-year prison sentences handed to her associates, Fehmeeda Sofi and Nahida Nasreen, by a Delhi court under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Andrabi, who founded a Kashmiri rights group called Dukhtaran-i-Millat, or Daughters of the Nation, which was later banned by the Indian government, was arrested by India’s National Investigation Agency in April 2018.
Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh of the specially designated National Investigating Agency Court in Delhi handed down the sentences after hearing arguments about the quantum of punishment, Indian media reported.
The three were convicted on January 14, 2026, under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, including “charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and waging war against the state.”
